BROOKS v. SCHOOL DISTRICT OF CITY OF MOBERLY, MISSOURI

No. 16131.

267 F.2d 733 (1959)

Naomi BROOKS et al., Appellants, v. SCHOOL DISTRICT OF CITY OF MOBERLY, MISSOURI, etc., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

June 17, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Carter, New York City (Herbert O. Reid, Washington, D. C., R. L. Witherspoon, Sidney R. Redmond, St. Louis, Mo., and Lee V. Swinton, Kansas City, Mo., on the brief), for appellants.

Arthur M. O'Keefe, Moberly, Mo. (Austin Walden, Moberly, Mo., on the brief), for appellees.

Before SANBORN, VAN OOSTERHOUT and MATTHES, Circuit Judges.


VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, seven Negro school teachers, who were employed by the defendant School District to teach in its segregated school maintained for Negroes during the 1954-1955 school year, and were not reemployed when the school system was integrated commencing in the fall of 1955, appeal from final order entered October 2, 1958, dismissing their complaint praying for declaratory judgment, an injunction, and damages.

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