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Constitutional Law Keyed to Chemerinsky
Norwood v. Harrison
Facts
The number of private schools in Mississippi has increased over the years since mandatory desegregation. The state of Mississippi has a 33 year-old program that provides free textbooks to all students in both public and private schools. Since the program began, the number of all white private schools greatly increased. The Appellees, Harrison and other (Appellees), claim that the state must provide assistance to private schools that is equivalent to assistance provided to public schools. The Appellants filed a class action on behalf of all the students in Mississippi to enjoin the textbook lending program. The Appellants argued that by supplying the textbooks to the segregated private schools, the state was directly supporting segregated education, in violation of the student’s constitutional rights to fully desegregated schools. The district could found that the lending program did not violate the Constitution.
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