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NORTHCROSS v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CITY OF MEMPHIS

No. 14642.

302 F.2d 818 (1962)

Deborah A. NORTHCROSS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 26, 1962.

As Amended May 15, 1962.

Certiorari Denied June 25, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Constance Baker Motley, New York City (Thurgood Marshall, New York City, A. W. Willis, Memphis, Tenn., on the brief; R. B. Sugarmon, Jr., H. T. Lockard, B. L. Hooks, B. F. Jones and Ira H. Murphy, Memphis, Tenn., of counsel), for appellants.

Jack Petree, Evans, Petree & Cobb, Memphis, Tenn. (Larry B. Creson, Laughlin, Watson & Creson, Memphis, Tenn., on the brief), for appellees.

Before CECIL, WEICK and O'SULLIVAN, Circuit Judges.

Certiorari Denied June 25, 1962. See 82 S.Ct. 1586.

CECIL, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves the public school system of the City of Memphis, Tennessee.

The appellants were plaintiffs in the District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. They are eighteen minors and their parents, all of the Negro race, who bring the action on behalf of themselves, and all other Negro children and their parents in...

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