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Meridian Star, December 20, 1952

Meridian Star, December 20, 1952

Proposing Guarantee 8-Months for School
Jackson, Miss. UP – Mississippi’s Legislative Study Committee, seeking a program to
equalize and improve schools for both Negroes and whites, proposed today that the state
guarantee an eight month school term to every child between the ages of six and eighteen,
inclusive. The committee made the proposal in the form of a constitutional amendment. The