One Year - 1986: A Boycott in Mississippi
Slate History
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Willie Grissom, the New Superintendent of the Indianapolis School Board
Robert Merritt was a man of conviction. He's going to be honest. That's the way he is. Willie Grissom had lived in Indianapolis for the past eleven years, and he'd served as the principal of a local elementary school. But he still didn't stack up to Robert Merritt. The vote broke along racial lines with the white candidate getting the support of the three white board members.
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