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A federal court in Washington, D.C., refused the Nixon administration’s request to dismiss a pending suit against federal tax exemptions for private, all-white academies in the South. The Internal Revenue Service confirmed that they would no longer grant tax-exempt status to private schools practicing racial discrimination in admissions policies.
1970 (Aug 26)
A federal court in Washington, D.C., refused the Nixon administration's request to dismiss a pending suit against federal tax exemptions for private, all-white academies in the South. The court also denied the request of the civil rights groups that brought the suit for all such academies to have their tax-exempt status revoked immediately. The administration's lawyer told the court that the Internal Revenue Service would no longer grant tax-exempt status to private schools practicing racial discrimination in admissions policies, but that the government had relied on the word of the schools in determining whether they were willing to desegregate.
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.