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PARHAM v. DOVE

Nos. 16323, 16327.

271 F.2d 132 (1959)

Lee PARHAM et al., President, Secretary and Members of the Board of Directors, Dollarway School District Number 2, Jefferson County, Arkansas; Dollarway School District Number 2, a Corporation; and Charles L. Fallis, Superintendent of Public Schools of said School District, Appellants, v. Earnestine DOVE, a Minor, Age 16, by her Father and Next Friend, et al., Appellees. Earnestine DOVE, a Minor, Age 16, by her Father and Next Friend, et al., Appellants, v. Lee PARHAM et al., President, Secretary and Members of the Board of Directors, Dollarway School District Number 2, Jefferson County, Arkansas, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

October 8, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert V. Light and Herschel H. Friday, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., for Lee Parham, et al.

Robert L. Carter, New York City, and George Howard, Jr., Pine Bluff, Ark., for Earnestine Dove, et al.

Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen., for the State of Arkansas as amicus curiæ.

Before JOHNSEN, Chief Judge, and VAN OOSTERHOUT and MATTHES, Circuit Judges.

JOHNSEN, Chief Judge.

Three Negro students (16, 13 and 12 years of age) sought, on the ground of existing segregation, to have the court order their immediate admittance to a particular school, in Dollarway School District Number 2, of Jefferson County, Arkansas, without regard to the provisions of the Arkansas Pupil Assignment Law of 1956,1 which was in effect at the time the suit was instituted, or to the provisions of the Arkansas Pupil...

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