GIBSON v. BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION OF DADE CTY., FLA.

Civ. No. 6978-M.

170 F.Supp. 454 (1958)

Theodore GIBSON, as next friend for Theodore R. Gibson, Jr., Albert Reddick as next friend for Cleo Reddick, J. O. Brown, as next friend for J. O. Brown, Jr., James Lenton Parker, as next friend for Teresa Parker, Richard Powell, as next friend for Richard Powell, Jr., Prince Hepburn, as next friend for Scheren Hepburn, Plaintiffs, v. BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, a Florida corporation, W. R. Thomas, as Superintendent of the Public Schools of Dade County, Florida, C. Raymond Van Dusen, E. L. Alsworth, Robert S. Butler, Helen Vosloh, and Anna Brenner Meyers, as members of the Board of Public Instruction of Dade County, Florida, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Florida, Miami Division.

December 22, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. E. Graves, Jr., Miami, Fla., Robert L. Carter, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Boardman, Bolles, Davant & Lloyd, Miami, Fla., for defendants.


LIEB, District Judge.

The plaintiffs are six Negro children of public school age, citizens of the United States and of the State of Florida, all of whom reside in Dade County, Florida. On June 12, 1956, they filed this suit by their respective parents as next friends, as a class action, against the defendants, C. Raymond Van Dusen, E. L. Alsworth, Robert S. Butler, Helen Vosloh and Anna Brenner Meyers, as members of the...

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