Word: eland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year program of its predominantly white Richard Bland College to four years. But the community of Petersburg, where Bland is located, already has a four-year school, Virginia State College, which is predominantly black. Both colleges were once officially segregated, and a special three-judge district court barred Eland's expansion on the grounds that it would undercut efforts to integrate Virginia State. The Supreme Court agreed. It also let stand a lower court ruling that forbade Brighton, Ala., to sell an abandoned junior high school building to a group intending to establish a whites-only private academy...