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Mississippi / Jamie Jaques / Margaret Schwartzfeger / Congress #1175258

CBS Evening News for Wednesday, May 18, 2016
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It was 62 years ago this week that the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools but it never went away. A study ordered by Congress found the percentage of high poverty schools with mostly black or Hispanic students has more than doubled since 2000. Michelle Miller went to a district in the Deep South that's been ordered to desegregate. The Mississippi Delta town of Cleveland has been grappling with its segregated past for 50 years and now its time has run out. In a ruling a federal ...
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Michelle Miller
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00:02:26

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