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One Year - 1986: A Boycott in Mississippi

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Brown v Board - A Case Study of the Civil Rights Movement in Sunflower County

David Jackson grew up north of Indianapolis in the 1960s. As a kid, he helped his parents pick cotton in the fields. In 1970, 16 years after Brown v. Board, it looked like things were finally about to change. When that decision came down, white parents just in droves left the public schools.

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