September 22, 2006

Desegregation Lawsuit Nears End in Tenn.

By SARA HEBEL

Plaintiffs in Tennessee's 38-year-old college-desegregation lawsuit joined state and higher-education officials last week to announce that they were asking a federal judge to formally end the case.

Representatives for all parties to the lawsuit, which originated in 1968, said they believed the state had fulfilled its court-ordered obligations to further desegregate its public institutions and to improve college opportunities for black students.

Plaintiffs and defendants in the

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