Thoughts from the Publisher
Plaquemines Parish, like many areas in the Deep South, resisted school desegregation for years after the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.National figures like George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, and Lester Maddox led their states of Alabama, South Carolina, and Georgia, fighting inte...
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