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BLACKWELL v. ISSAQUENA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION

No. 22712.

363 F.2d 749 (1966)

Jeremiah BLACKWELL, Jr., et al., Appellants, v. ISSAQUENA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 21, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvyn Zarr, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., New York City, Henry M. Aronson, Jackson, Miss., Carsie A. Hall, Jack H. Young, Jackson, Miss., Jack Greenberg, New York City, for appellants.

Will S. Wells, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., J. Wesley Miller, Herman C. Glazier, Jr., Rolling Fork, Miss., for appellees.

Before GEWIN and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges, and WEST, District Judge.

GEWIN, Circuit Judge.

The appellants filed a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to enjoin pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1343 school officials from enforcing a regulation forbidding school children from wearing "freedom buttons" as a denial of First and Fourteenth Amendment rights under the United States Constitution.1 The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi refused to grant a preliminary injunction...

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