Believing that the state of Mississippi and the federal government should act immediately to stem the decline in Black freshman enrollment, Alvin Chambliss Jr., the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, asked the Supreme Court for further clarification of the 1992 ruling and a review of the Bigger's desegregation plan in the appeal.
Chambliss estimates that some 2,500 Black students are being denied admission annually as freshmen to Mississippi and the federal government should act immediately to stem the decline in Black freshman enrollment, Alvin Chambliss Jr., the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, asked the Supreme Court for further clarification of the 1992 ruling and a review of the Biggers' desegregation plan in the appeal.
Chambliss estimates that some 2,500 Black students are being denied admission annually as freshmen to Mississippi colleges because of the revised admission standards.
"There's irreparable harm because thousands of Black students are not gaining access to college. [The higher education system] will never be able to recapture those students," Chambliss says.
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