HOLT v. RALEIGH CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION

Civ. A. No. 1064.

164 F.Supp. 853 (1958)

Joseph Hiram HOLT, Jr., A Minor, By His Next Friend, Joseph Hiram Holt, and Joseph Hiram Holt and Elwyna Holt, Plaintiffs, v. The RALEIGH CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION, A Body Corporate, Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. North Carolina, Raleigh Division.

August 29, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel S. Mitchell and Herman L. Taylor, Raleigh, N. C., for plaintiffs.

J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Jr. and Thomas F. Ellis, Raleigh, N. C., for defendant.

Malcolm B. Seawell, Atty. Gen., of State of North Carolina, and Ralph Moody, Asst. Atty. Gen., of State of North Carolina, amici curiae.


STANLEY, District Judge.

This action was commenced on August 29, 1957, by Joseph Hiram Holt, Jr., a 15-year-old Negro citizen of Raleigh, North Carolina, and his parents, Joseph Hiram Holt and Elwyna Holt, against the Raleigh City Board of Education, to have declared the rights of the minor plaintiff to attend the public schools of the City of Raleigh without discrimination on account of race or color, and for an injunction restraining such discrimination. Prior to...

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