AARON v. COOPER

No. 16034.

257 F.2d 33 (1958)

John and Thelma AARON, minors, by their mother and next friend, (Mrs.) Thelma Aaron; et al., Appellants, v. William G. COOPER, et al., Members of the Board of Directors of the Little Rock, Arkansas, Independent School District, and Virgil T. Blossom, Superintendent of Schools, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

August 18, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wiley A. Branton, Pine Bluff, Ark., and Thurgood Marshall, New York City (Elwood H. Chisolm, Irma Robbins Feder, Constance Baker Motley, New York City, and Spottswood W. Robinson, III, Richmond, Va., of counsel), for appellants.

Richard C. Butler and A. F. House, Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.

Before GARDNER, Chief Judge, and SANBORN, WOODROUGH, JOHNSEN, VOGEL, VAN OOSTERHOUT and MATTHES, Circuit Judges.


MATTHES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is another in a series of legal actions which followed the adoption and implementation of a plan for gradual integration of the public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, as set up by the school board in that district, and approved by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and by this Court. See Aaron v. Cooper, D.C. E.D.Ark.1956, 143 F.Supp. 855, affirmed 8 Cir...

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