As Dems debate busing, southern schools slowly desegregate
CLEVELAND, Miss. (AP) ” This small Mississippi Delta town serves as a reminder that fierce debates over the integration of black and white students are not a thing of the past.Two rival high schools in Cleveland, one historically black and the other historically white, had to be merged just two years ago after a judge determined that all-black student bodies in the 3,400-student district were illegal vestiges of segregation. It is one of scores of school districts around the U.S. […]
