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The final blow to segregated schools in Mississippi was delivered on October 29, 1969 in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education. The Court made crystal clear the timeline for enforcing Brown: “Under explicit holdings of this Court the obligation of every school district is to terminate dual school systems at once and to operate now and hereafter only unitary schools.”
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Adams, N., Adams, J.H. (2015). Ambivalence, Angst, and Hope. In: Noblit, G.W. (eds) School Desegregation. Breakthroughs in the Sociology of Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-965-4_11
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