Black High School Grad Sues School District For Denying Salutatorian Honor
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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