Racial Disputes Stymie Efforts to Achieve Desegregation in Louisiana and Mississippi

Lawsuits, old and new, hamstring two states still shedding the legacy of Jim Crow

By ERIK LORDS

Baton Rouge, La.

The desegregation of Southern colleges, for decades one of the most fiery policy issues in the region, is again inflaming passions. But this time, the quarrels surround two academic undertakings that appear, at first, to be...