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KELLY v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CITY OF NASHVILLE

Civ. A. No. 2094.

159 F.Supp. 272 (1958)

Robert W. KELLY et al., Plaintiffs, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CITY OF NASHVILLE et al., Defendants.

United States District Court. M. D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

February 18, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thurgood Marshall, New York City, Z. Alexander Looby and Avon Williams, Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiff.

Edwin F. Hunt and Reber Boult, Nashville, Tenn., for defendant School Board.

Thomas P. Gore and Sims Crownover, Nashville, Tenn., for School Preference Committee, amici curiæ.

George McCanless, Atty. Gen., State of Tennessee, Allison B. Humphreys, Sol. Gen., State of Tennessee, amici curiæ.

WILLIAM E. MILLER, District Judge.

The complaint was filed September 23, 1955, as a class action, by Negro children eligible to attend the public schools of Nashville, Tennessee, by their parents as next friends, to have declared their rights to attend the public schools without discrimination on account of race and for an injunction restraining such discrimination. Named as defendants were the members of the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Schools of...

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