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Harry Flood Byrd: “Yes. It involved a civil rights matter in the educational field. The Supreme Court ruled that tax increases could be…”

On the recordFebruary 23, 1994
Yes. It involved a civil rights matter in the educational field. The Supreme Court ruled that tax increases could be required of a school district. And the Court reserved to the Court itself the ground of levying that tax if necessary.
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Harry Flood Byrd
Virginia

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The speaker discusses a Supreme Court ruling related to civil rights in education.

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