Race Is the Least of the Problems The people of Mississippi have not been angels. The history of the Magnolia State and segregation invites the kind of scrutiny and criticism that has recently been visited upon the state. ...
Daily Archive: Tuesday, September 29, 2015
RACE IN OUR SCHOOLS
A few years ago, I wrote an article about a school district in Mississippi that was under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department’s division of civil rights for having unacceptable race ratios. Walthall County is a rural community of...