After the United States Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Brown ruling holding school segregation unconstitutional, the city of Grenada, Mississippi, continued to operate on a segregated school system. In August of 1966, a federal judge ordered that Black students be allowed to enroll in formerly white-only schools. Approximately 450 African American students enrolled before the […]

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