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ALLEN v. COUNTY SCHOOL BD. OF PRINCE EDWARD CTY., VA.

No. 7829.

266 F.2d 507 (1959)

Ulysses ALLEN, an infant, by Hal Edward Allen, his father and next friend, Roy Hicks, an infant, by C. W. Hicks, his father and next friend, and McDarnold Bagley, an infant, by P. H. Shepperson, his guardian and next friend, and Hal Edward Allen, C. W. Hicks and P. H. Shepperson, Appellants, v. COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, VA., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

May 5, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oliver W. Hill, Richmond, Va. (Spottswood W. Robinson, III, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellants.

Archibald G. Robertson, Richmond, Va. and A. S. Harrison, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Virginia (Henry T. Wickham, Special Asst. to the Atty. Gen. of Virginia, W. C. Fitzpatrick, Farmville, Va., John W. Riely, T. Justin Moore, Jr., and Hunton, Williams, Gay, Moore & Powell, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges, and THOMPSON, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

This litigation, which looks to the desegregation of the races in the public schools of Prince Edward County, Virginia, began nearly eight years ago on May 23, 1951, when a class suit on behalf of a number of colored pupils of high school age was entered against the County School Board in the District Court below. Since that time the case has been continuously before the courts and the principle of desegregation has been firmly established, but no steps...

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