Dorothy Haymer of Yazoo City, one of the four African-American mothers who have children in public elementary schools, explains why she and others are plaintiffs of a lawsuit filed on their behalf by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi is denying good schools to African American students and violating the federal law that enabled the state to rejoin the union after the Civil War, the Southern Poverty Law Center alleged Tuesday in a lawsuit trying to strengthen constitutional protections for education. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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