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Race remains intertwined in both the process and substance of preand post secondary education in the state of Mississippi. Southern legislators, municipal and civic leaders established dual systems of schooling for African American and White students ensuring limited educational and social opportunity. African American education represented a threat to white economic and political in the south. Education conferred the right of suffrage on the Black community and his equality before the law. Black leaders attacked the unconstitutionality of the segregated schools. The Courts have been reluctant to address how neutral educational policy may in fact be discriminatory. This reluctance to remedy racial discrimination in Mississippi's lower and postsecondary schools has produced desegregation and not educational opportunity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]