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BARKSDALE v. SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL COMMITTEE

Civ. A. No. 64-8-S.

237 F.Supp. 543 (1965)

Abraham BARKSDALE, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs, v. SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL COMMITTEE: Charles V. Ryan, Jr., Theodore E. Dimauro, Romeo J. Cyr, Rosemarie Coughlin, Vincent Dimanoco, Mary M. Lynch, Wilbur J. Hogan, Members of the Springfield School Committee, Dr. Joseph T. McCook, Superintendent of Schools of the City of Springfield, Massachusetts, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Massachusetts.

Supplemental Order January 19, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Weissman, Springfield, Mass., J. Clifford Clarkson, Springfield, Mass., Robert L. Carter, Barbara A. Morris, Joan Franklin, New York City, Herbert Reid, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

James L. Allen, City Sol., John J. O'Connor, Associate City Sol., Springfield, Mass., for defendants.

SWEENEY, Chief Judge.

This class action was brought in behalf of the minor negro children who reside in the City of Springfield, Massachusetts. They seek 1) a declaratory judgment that the defendants, by assigning plaintiffs to racially segregated schools, are denying to the plaintiffs their rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and 2) an injunction to bar the defendants from continuing...

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