The Nation - News from Dec. 11, 1986
An often stormy public school desegregation case filed 26 years ago was dismissed by a judge who ruled that the Board of Education had finally met an order to racially integrate students and faculty. U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar said that the Chattanooga, Tenn., school board’s reassignment of faculty and staff earlier this year eliminated the last obstacle to the dismissal of the suit filed in 1960. A desegregation plan had been approved in the case in 1976, which called for faculty at schools to match a 60-40 white-to-black ratio.
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