Neal Biggers, Reagan-appointed judge in key school prayer, HBCU cases, dead at 88

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

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