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Decades after a former Richmond County superintendent said segregation must be maintained “at any cost,” a federal judge on Wednesday freed the school system from a 1972 desegregation order that forced integration and led to the racial equality in classrooms today.Ron Sherman; School rooms were mostly empty Feb. 14, 1972, as Richmond County parents participated in a boycott, protesting federally ordered school desegregation by busing.
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Decades after a former Richmond County superintendent said segregation must be maintained “at any cost,” a federal judge on Wednesday freed the school system from a 1972 desegregation order that forced integration and led to the racial equality in classrooms today.Ron Sherman; School rooms were mostly empty Feb. 14, 1972, as Richmond County parents participated in a boycott, protesting federally ordered school desegregation by busing.