Federal Court Requires Board To Hire Minority Head Football Coach
In a case, whose origins extended back to the 1960s and the days of the Civil Rights Movement, a federal judge has ordered a school district to hire an African-American Head Football Coach it had originally passed over in hopes of achieving a more racially balanced school system.
The court began its analysis by pointing to its initial injunctive ruling in the 1960s in Joyce Marie Moore, et. al. v. Tangipahoa Parish School Board, et. al., when the Court ordered the Tangipahoa School Board