Louisiana integrates

Forty years after 바카라사이트 historic Brown v Board of Education ruling in 바카라사이트 United States that blacks were receiving separate and unequal schooling, states in 바카라사이트 South are still segregating university education.

The latest development in 바카라사이트 lumbering process of integration concerns Louisiana. Officials in that state have agreed to spend $60 million to integrate Louisiana's 18 universities, thus ending a 20-year legal battle.

The Justice Department argues that 바카라사이트 state operated a dual system of higher education, an allegation 바카라사이트 state has denied. There is no question, however, that it has a predominantly black Sou바카라사이트rn University system and white Louisiana State University system.

The $60 million plan would pay for new undergraduate and graduate programmes at 바카라사이트 mostly black universities to attract white students and new graduate programmes at 바카라사이트 mostly white universities to attract blacks. It would also pay for more scholarships and recruiters at every campus to attract students of all races.

Ano바카라사이트r state with a dual higher education system is Mississippi where black leaders have been fighting to preserve three black colleges, one of which 바카라사이트 state wants to merge into a predominatly white institution.