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GANTT v. CLEMSON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

No. CA/4101.

208 F.Supp. 416 (1962)

Harvey B. GANTT, a minor, by his father and next friend, Christopher Gantt, Plaintiffs, v. The CLEMSON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, a public body corporate; R. M. Cooper, President of the Board of Trustees of The Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina; Edgar A. Brown, James F. Byrnes, Charles E. Daniel, Winchester Smith, Robert R. Coker, Jamces C. Self, Robert L. Stoddard, Paul Quattlebaum, Jr., W. Gordon McCabe, Jr., W. A. Barnette, A. M. Quattlebaum and L. D. Holmes, Members of the Board of Trustees of The Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina; Kenneth N. Vickery, Registrar of The Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina; and J. T. Anderson, Superintendent of Education of the State of South Carolina, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. South Carolina, Anderson Division.

September 6, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew J. Perry, Jenkins & Perry, Columbia, S. C., Donald James Sampson, Willie T. Smith, Jr., Greenville, S. C., Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley, New York City, for plaintiffs.

William Law Watkins, Watkins, Vandiver, Freeman & Kirven, Anderson, S. C., for defendants other than J. T. Anderson.

Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen. of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C., for defendant J. T. Anderson, Supt. of Education of South Carolina.

WYCHE, Chief Judge.

This is an action by plaintiff, a nineteen year old negro resident of Charleston, South Carolina, against defendants, seeking a permanent injunction enjoining the defendants from denying him admission to The Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina solely on account of his race.

The suit was commenced on July 7, 1962. On the same date the plaintiff filed a motion for preliminary injunction asking that the defendants be enjoined as...

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