The Brown v. Board of Education decision was historic — but it's not history yet. Just this week, a federal judge ordered a Mississippi school district to desegregate its schools.
The case on which the judge was ruling was originally brought during the summer of 1965. The first named plaintiff, "Diane Cowan, minor," was a fourth-grader at the time. Now she's Diane Cowan White, a 57-year-old clerk with the U.S. Postal Service.
The legal saga that bears her name continues because, for 50 years, the Cleveland, Miss., school district has failed to integrate....
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/17/478389720/after-50-year-legal-struggle-mississippi-school-district-ordered-to-desegregate?ft=nprml&f=1001
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