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Black High School Grad Sues School District For Denying Salutatorian Honor

Black High School Grad Sues School District For Denying Salutatorian Honor

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May 08, 2019
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Black High School Grad Sues School District For Denying Salutatorian Honor
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A Mississippi high school graduate claimed that Cleveland School District officials stole her chance to be salutatorian because they “feared white flight,” according to a federal lawsuit filed in April in US District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. Olecia James graduated from Cleveland Central, a newly integrated high school in the Missi…

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