WUSA CBS Overnight News May 19, 2016
It was 62 years ago this week thathe Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools. But it never went away. A study ordered by Congress Found the percentage of highpoverty schools with mostly black or hispanic students has more than doubled since 2000. Michelle miller went to a district in the deep south thats been ordered to desegregate. Reporter the mississippi delta town of cleveland has been grappling with its segregated past for 50 years, and now its time has run out. In a ruling, a federal judge ordered the district to merge two high schools and two middle schools, saying the dela...