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Ratliff, Lindon J. – Planning and Changing, 2010
Federal court cases are examined in an effort to view recent First Amendment rights infringements which have occurred in Mississippi. Case law reinforces students' rights to wear same-sex outfits to school functions as well as to bring same-sex dates. Connection to a recent civil rights investigation by the NAACP into a north Mississippi middle…
Descriptors: Federal Courts, Court Litigation, Student Rights, Clothing
LEESON, JIM – 1968
REVIEWED ARE VARIOUS LEGAL DECISIONS IN FEDERAL COURTS FOR TEACHER DESEGREGATION IN SOUTHERN SCHOOLS. THE COURTS HAVE STATED THEIR ORDERS FOR FACULTY DESEGREGATION IN RATHER GENERAL TERMS OR SET A STANDARD OF ONE OR TWO TEACHERS WHOSE RACE IS DIFFERENT FROM THE MAJORITY AT A GIVEN SCHOOL. THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE "SOUTHERN EDUCATION…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Faculty Integration, Federal Courts
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1995
A federal judge's specifications for desegregating Mississippi's state colleges are excerpted from a recent court ruling. Issues addressed include the state's formula for financing colleges, whether the case should focus on students or institutions, the missions of historically black colleges and predominantly white institutions, and campus…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Desegregation, Court Litigation, Federal Courts
Days III, Drew S. – 1978
The author of this speech discusses racial dualism in higher education in the American South. The states of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana have all had suits brought against them for maintaining separate and unequal institutions for blacks and whites. In all three states, the vast proportion of funds allocated for higher education have been…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Colleges, Black Education, Court Litigation

Hill, L. Brooks; Lujan, Philip – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1983
Examines the Smith John case--in which the United States Supreme Court secured official recognition of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw as a tribe--as an example of "rhetorical games" used by different cultural groups to manipulate each other. Suggests alternative rhetorical strategies that would benefit the state and the Mississippi…
Descriptors: American Indians, Court Litigation, Federal Courts, Federal Indian Relationship
Jaschik, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1995
A federal district judge ruled that state officials failed to demonstrate the need to close Mississippi Valley State University and merge Mississippi University for Women with Mississippi State University to meet desegregation requirements. He ordered Mississippi to provide additional funds to two other black colleges, and approved a state plan…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Black Colleges, College Administration, College Desegregation