The DOJ dismissed the case against the Plaquemines Parish School Board, after suing for desegregation in the mid-1960s.

“No longer will the Plaquemines Parish School Board have to devote precious local resources over an integration issue that ended two generations ago,” Dhillon said in a statement. “This is a ...

The Plaquemines Parish School Board came under a federal consent decree in 1966 for refusing to comply with the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawing segregation in schools.

A Tuesday, April 29 press release from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that the desegregation lawsuit filed against the Plaquemines Parish School Board back in 1966 was finally ...