The Nation - News from Sept. 26, 1985

The Justice Department said that Mobile, Ala., has failed to achieve a unitary school system and should be compelled to submit a plan for accomplishing desegregation. Reiterating an argument made in federal court in Mobile last March, the department’s civil rights division opposed a move by the Board of School Commissioners to be freed from the provisions of a 1971 consent decree requiring desegregation of public schools. “We would urge the court to enter an order finding that the Mobile County School District has not attained a unitary status,” said the brief filed in U.S. District Court in Mobile.