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Olecia James did everything right in high school.
She was a tennis and basketball player. She was the homecoming queen. She was academically savvy and took advanced courses.
It was, however, James’ non-whiteness that would cost her the class title of salutatorian at Cleveland Central High School in Cleveland, Mississippi last spring.
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