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McCOY v. GREENSBORO CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION

No. 8127.

283 F.2d 667 (1960)

Valarie McCOY, a Minor, Eric McCoy, a Minor, and Thetus McCoy, a Minor, by their father and next friend, Readell McCoy, and Readell McCoy; and Michael Anthony Tonkins, a Minor, by his father and next friend, James Tonkins, Jr., and James Tonkins, Jr., Appellants, v. GREENSBORO CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION, a Body Politic of Guilford County, North Carolina, Thornton H. Brooks, J. C. Cowan, Jr., Mrs. Lessie Hoyle, Richard K. Hunter, James R. Perrin and Richard M. Wilson, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 14, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Greenberg, New York City (J. Kenneth Lee, Greensboro, N. C., Conrad O. Pearson, Durham, N. C., Thurgood Marshall and James M. Nabrit, III, New York City, on the brief), for appellants.

Welch Jordan and Robert F. Moseley, Greensboro, N. C., for appellees.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges.

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This action was brought by four Negro children and by their fathers on their behalf against the Greensboro City Board of Education of Greensboro, North Carolina, to secure the right of the children to attend the public schools of the city on equality with the white children of the community and also to secure an injunction against the Board and its members restraining them from taking any action that...

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