The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has a message for a mostly white
Alabama town that got the green light from a federal judge to split from
a racially-mixed county school district and start its own system — not
so fast.
The civil rights organization has made good on its vow to appeal Judge
Madeline Haikala's ruling in April that allowed the town of Gardendale
to secede from the Jefferson County school district, even though "race
was the motivating factor" for many supporters of the split.
"The District Court agreed that Gardendale’s
bid to form its own school district was designed to exclude black school
children," said LDF's senior counsel Chris Kemmitt. "In filing this
appeal, we are simply asking the Circuit Court to follow that finding to
its logical conclusion and prohibit Gardendale from creating a
separate, segregated school district at the expense of the broader
community."
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Source: NBC News
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