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The case that refuses to die
Nossiter, Adam | March 12, 1990 issue

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In the past few months, the attention of civil rights advocates in Louisiana has focused on a case that has long been considered one of the more egregious examples of Southern legal lynching. It began in Destrehan, Louisiana, an isolated, working-class Mississippi River town fifteen years ago, during violent upheavals surrounding the integration of the local high school. On October 7, 1974, a furious mob of whites shouting racial epithets and hurling rocks and bottles surrounded a school bus full of terrified blacks from Destrehan High School.

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LYNCHING; CIVIL rights -- United States; RACE relations; HIGH schools; LOUISIANA; UNITED States
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