US Judge Biggers, who ruled on funding for Black universities in Mississippi, dies at 88
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 25, 2023
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Funeral services were being held Wednesday for longtime U.S. District Judge Neal Brooks Biggers Jr. of Mississippi, who issued significant rulings about prayer in public schools and funding of historically Black universities.
Biggers died Oct. 15 at his home in Oxford. He was 88.
Services were being held in Corinth, according to the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.
Biggers was a Corinth native and . . .
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