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White Mob Attack Black Students for Integrating Mississippi School in 1966

White Mob Attack Black Students for Integrating Mississippi School in 1966

Two hundred and fifty Black students attempted to integrate Grenada, Mississippi schools on September 12, 1966. This decision came 12 years after the Supreme Court landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling held racially-segregated public schooling unconstitutional, but the city of Grenada, Mississippi, hadn’t stopped operating a segregated school system. In August 1966, a federal […]