ri
y r fl
oompromi pro
that ould h v.
flag failed .
.. A 1 gisla i lution .
..'v< n aft r,· Gergel id .:
We don't nt th court to or-
der the. flag do, ant you
to provide the Legislature time
to act." pite the d ire of th
business and civic leaders to
�ve the flag lowered, if the Leg­
islature decides to make flying
the �ebel banner official by
p mg a law, Gergel id that
ould be the Legislature' right.
m ure our
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1954, THE U.S. Supreme
Court ruled in Brown . Board
of Education that an 1896 deci­
sion, PI y vs. Ferguson, erred
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THE EW P drop
quot n sy t m et up in an rli r
_ ttl merit and instead u
s ndmg on programs to draw
whit �. to hi orically Bla k
rnmpu"es - Southern Univer­
si y nd Grambling Stat U ni­
v rsrty - and to draw more
Blacks to Loui iana Stat U ru­
v rsit and th state's eight
oth r III tly hit universities.
Th agr merit also requii
th � tat to pond $65 million for
,b\lildin� on Black campuses
pronns under the 1981 settle­
m nt
A thr -jud pan I ruled the
arli r. tl m nt a failure in
1 7 'I 0 y 1st r, chw rtz
approved mer r plan' that th
hi torically Black institution
feared wou ld cost them their
identity
Under th new plan, the
outh rrn Univer ity ystem, 92
rc nt Black in 1993, will re­
main i�tact. And Grambling
Stat WIll not b merged wit h
other chools Grambling was
almost 95 percent Black in 1993.
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THERE I widespread sup­
port for the settlem nt includ­
ing agreement from officials of
all state universiti .
�le th NAACP plans no
act ion, Richardson said the
group would continue to speak
out against the settlement.
She said the NAACP would
have preferred an agreement
that resembled Schwartz's 1989
plan. An appeal court hrew
out the plan, ruling that the
judge had failed to detennin
wh therth current higheredu­
cation ystem was responsible
. for segr ga tion.
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