May 18, 2001
Judge Questions Agreement in Mississippi's Desegregation Case
The federal judge overseeing Mississippi's 26-year-old college-desegregation case said last week that he had "serious reservations" about a $503-million settlement proposal that was submitted late last month.
In papers filed in U.S. District Court in Oxford, Miss., Judge Neal B. Biggers Jr. suggested that the plan is too expensive, that it acknowledges the fundamental goal of desegregation "only in a cursory fashion," and that it "contains a racial quota." The settlement plan, reached
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