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Resegregation
10:49 am
Fri February 22, 2013

Carving Up The Elephant: Resegregation In Louisiana

Credit Sue Lincoln / Southern Education Desk
Students in a Baton Rouge public school.

It’s been nearly 60 years since the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, and the subsequent flurry of lawsuits forcing the desegregation of schools. Two recent studies—one from Stanford University, the other from UCLA—say that schools, particularly in the South, are becoming re-segregated after the lawsuits are settled. Louisiana’s East Baton Rouge Parish appears to be part of that pattern.

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