COLUMBUS -- Although relatively unknown outside the area, a 1980 Mississippi University for Women gender integration lawsuit has heavily impacted higher education across the country, according to Columbus-Lowndes Public Library Archivist Mona Vance.
The case rarely is credited for setting a gender discrimination precedent for colleges and universities across the nation, Joe Hogan''s lawsuit against MUW may have been one of the most important education-related cases of the past few decades, Vance
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