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AARON v. COOPER

No. 15675.

243 F.2d 361 (1957)

John AARON, a Minor, and Thelma Aaron, a Minor, by Their Mother and Next Friend, (Mrs.) Thelma Aaron, a Feme Sole, et al., Appellants, v. William G. COOPER, M. D., as President of Board of Trustees, Little Rock Independent School District, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

April 26, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wiley A. Branton, Pine Bluff, Ark., and Robert L. Carter, New York City (U. S. Tate, Dallas, Tex., and Thurgood Marshall, New York City, on the brief), for appellants.

Leon B. Catlett and A. F. House, Little Rock, Ark. (Richard C. Butler, Frank E. Chowning and Henry Spitzberg, Little Rock, Ark., on the brief), for appellees.

Before WOODROUGH, VOGEL and VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judges.

VOGEL, Circuit Judge.

Appellants are Negro children attending the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas. They brought this action in their own behalf and in behalf of all other Negro minors similarly situated. Appellees are the Little Rock School District, a corporation, the president and secretary of its board, and the superintendent of public schools for Little Rock. On February 8, 1956, appellants filed a complaint in the United States District Court, Eastern...

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