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FILE - In this April 3, 2014, file photo, a statue of U.S. District Judge Waties Waring, one of three federal judges to hear a key school desegregation case from South Carolina in 1951, stands outside the federal courthouse in Charleston, S.C. U.S. Attorney Gen. Eric Holder visited Charleston on Friday, April 11, 2014 to help dedicate the statue. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, file)

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during the dedication of a statue of U.S. District Judge Waties Waring outside the federal courthouse in Charleston, S.C., on Friday, April 11, 2014. Holder said, Waring, the first federal judge to write an opinion challenging separate but equal decades after the policy was declared the law by the U.S. Supreme Court, was morally right and historically gutsy. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)