The Department of Justice has dismissed a Louisiana school desegregation case after more than 50 years, saying it “righted a historical wrong” by “freeing” the Plaquemines Parish School Board of federal oversight.
According to The Associated Press, the 1966 legal agreement with Plaquemines Parish schools was part of a wave of cases the Justice Department opened in the 1960s after Congress authorized the department to pursue schools that resisted desegregation efforts.
The district sits in the Mississippi River Delta Basin in southeast Louisiana, approximately 66 miles from New Orleans.
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