Word: cantonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Virginia, Louisiana and other Southern states where many more than 200 private schools have been established in order to exclude blacks, more than 30 new private schools have been set up in Mississippi since September. They are in addition to 56 "segregation academies" already in existence. In the Canton Municipal District, where black students outnumber whites three to one, some 90% of the whites are either enrolled or attempting to enroll in the private Canton Academic Foundation. In Holmes County, where black students outnumber whites by more than five to one, hysterical parents are planning to abandon the public schools...