After 20 years, Judge John Parker had had enough. “Unlike Sisyphus, who was condemned to spend eternity pushing a boulder to the top of the hill, only to have it roll back every time, this senior judge is not required to continue pushing the stone,” the Louisiana federal judge wrote in 2001, in his final opinion in the case.
For two decades, Parker presided over the longest-running school desegregation case in the nation. The lawsuit to integrate Baton Rouge’s public schools was filed in 1956, back when Elvis Presley sang “Don’t Be Cruel” and African-American students in Louisiana still had to ride in the back of the bus. The case finally crawled to a settlement in 2007.
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