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2023-02-02 20:38:10 UTC - HELPFUL
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Cleveland School District's segregation wasn't a product of rules or laws. Local initiatives tried to encourage more "meaningful" integration. The problem is the town was geographically segregated historically, which largely influenced modern school attendance demographics. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/17/478389720/after-50-year-legal-struggle-mississippi-school-district-ordered-to-desegregate
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