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SINGLETON v. JACKSON MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DIST.

No. 22527.

355 F.2d 865 (1966)

Derek Jerome SINGLETON, Minor, by Mrs. Edna Marie Singleton, His Mother and Next Friend, et al., Appellants, v. JACKSON MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 26, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack H. Young, Jackson, Miss., Jack Greenberg, New York City, Joel M. Finkelstein, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Derrick A. Bell, Jr., New York City, John Doar, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., for appellants.

E. W. Stennett, Robert C. Cannada, Thomas H. Watkins, Jackson, Miss., Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen. of State of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss., for appellees.

Before WHITAKER, Senior Judge, and WISDOM and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is the precipitate of three earlier appeals by Negro parents of children seeking desegregation of public schools in Jackson, Mississippi. The action was filed in March 1963. The first appeal resulted from the district court's dismissal of the action for failure of the plaintiffs to exhaust administrative remedies. We reversed, with directions that the district court give prompt consideration to the plaintiff's motion for a preliminary...

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