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Word: oktibbeha (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflammatory talk is producing more white boycotts of integrated schools and a steady proliferation of private academies. A high school in Mississippi's Oktibbeha County that was to reopen last week with a heavy black enrollment burned down; arson is suspected. Bomb threats delayed the opening of two newly integrated schools in Birmingham. Bills outlawing busing to achieve racial integration are being introduced in Southern legislatures. Most of them are patterned after a law enacted last year by the New York state legislature-and Mississippi's Stennis has introduced an almost identical measure in the U.S. Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Segregation South and North | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

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