WHITMYER v. LINCOLN PARISH SCHOOL BOARD

Civ. A. No. 2250.

75 F.Supp. 686 (1948)

WHITMYER v. LINCOLN PARISH SCHOOL BOARD et al.

District Court, W. D. Louisiana, Monroe Division.

February 11, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. P. Tureaud and Louis Berry, both of New Orleans, La., and Thurgood Marshall, of New York City, for plaintiff.

Truett L. Scarborough, of Ruston, La., for defendants.


DAWKINS, District Judge.

Plaintiff, alleging himself to be a colored schoolteacher of Negro blood, permanently employed by the defendant school board, brings this suit as a class action under Rule 23(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A. following section 723c, for declaratory judgment. He charges that, although equally qualified with white teachers, he and others of his race have been discriminated against in the salaries and compensation paid them...

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