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Starkville Academy and other racially discriminatory private schools. At the time, the head of Starkville Academy said no blacks had ever applied or enrolled. In 1999
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had illegally provided free water and electricity to the school. The NAACP claimed that the free utility service was unconstitutional aid to a school that practiced racial discrimination.
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unanimously ruled that, since the program allowed the grants to be used at schools with racially restrictive admissions policies, such as
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16:Segregation academy in Starkville, Mississippi
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817:Tucker, Neely (26 November 2018).
598:- Dist. Court, ND Mississippi 1977
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937:Mississippi State University
593:Bishop v. Starkville Academy
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256:State Sovereignty Commission
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