The U.S. Department of Justice has dismissed the longstanding federal school desegregation case for Plaquemines Parish, with ...

In 1975, the court found Plaquemines Parish schools had been properly integrated, but the case was never removed from the ...

The DOJ dismissed the case against the Plaquemines Parish School Board, after suing for desegregation in the mid-1960s.

After over 50 years, an open desegregation case against Plaquemines Parish School Board filed by the U.S. Department of ...

The DOJ dismissed the case against the Plaquemines Parish School Board, after suing for desegregation in the mid-1960s.

Dozens of school districts across the South remain under court-enforced agreements dictating steps to work toward integration ...

The U.S. Department of Justice dismissed a decades-old school desegregation case against Plaquemines Parish on Tuesday, ending an integration order that local leaders forcefully resisted in the ...

“No longer will the Plaquemines Parish School Board have to devote precious local resources over an integration issue that ended two generations ago,” Dhillon said in a statement. “This is a ...

Per a DOJ press release, officials pursued legal action against the Plaquemines Parish School Board in 1966. At the time, the parish was reportedly spearheaded by Leander Perez, who championed ...