Patriot Act report on alleged DOJ rights infractions [US DOJ OIG] News
Patriot Act report on alleged DOJ rights infractions [US DOJ OIG]

Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA Patriot Act, US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, released March 11, 2005 [describing allegations of mistreatment of Muslim prisoners at several US federal prisons and documented one instance where a warden and guards discriminated and retaliated against Muslim inmates who had complained]. Read the full text of the report [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Supreme Court said busing could be used to achieve racial integration

On April 20, 1971, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education that busing of school students could be ordered to achieve racial desegregation.

League of Nations dissolved

On April 20, 1946, the League of Nations was officially dissolved with the close of its final session. Thirty-four countries had attended the final meeting at which they elected to dismantle the organization and bequeath its assets to the United Nations.

Read a history of League of Nations from the UN.

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