The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across the South should be eliminated.
Some see the court orders’ endurance as a sign the government never eradicated segregation, while officials in Louisiana and at some schools see the orders as bygone relics that should be wiped away.
Louisiana officials want to get rid of these bygone relics so they can bring back even older bygone relics.
Louisiana officials want to get rid of these bygone relics so they can bring back even older bygone relics.