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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Public schools are slipping back into racial segregation, according to a study by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University released on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The nationwide analysis of enrollments from the 2000-2001 school year found a growing number of black and Latino students attend schools where the majority of students are minorities. Similarly, white students are found increasingly likely to attend schools where most of their classmates are also white. In 1964, a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered all schools desegregated in Brown v. Board of Education, 98% of blacks in the South still attended totally segregated schools. By 1988, 44% of black students in the South attended schools that were majority white. In 2000, however, just 31% of black students went to schools where whites made up more than half the enrollment...
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