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Hawkins, B. Denise – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2005
After shepherding more than a dozen Black Mississippi plaintiffs in the landmark Ayers v. Fordice case for nearly 30 years, Alvin O. Chambliss Jr. says he never would have agreed to a $503 million settlement agreement as restitution for the state's three historically Black universities or a portion of the $2.5 million the court allocated for…
Descriptors: Lawyers, African American History, Court Litigation, Black Colleges
Hawkins, B. Denise – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2003
Profiles attorney Alvin O. Chambliss, Jr., and his fight in "Ayers v. Fordice" to desegregate Mississippi's higher education system. (EV)
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Desegregation, Court Litigation, Equal Education
