MORROW v. MECKLENBURG COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION

Civ. A. No. 1415.

195 F.Supp. 109 (1961)

Priscilla MORROW, a Minor by Charlton A. Morrow, her father, et al., Plaintiffs, v. MECKLENBURG COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, North Carolina Advisory Committee on Education and North Carolina State Board of Education et al., Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. North Carolina, Charlotte Division.

June 15, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. H. Wyche, Charlotte, N. C., Conrad O. Pearson, Durham, N. C., Thurgood Marshall, Jack Greenberg, Derrick A. Bell, New York City, for plaintiffs.

McDougle, Ervin, Horack & Snepp, Brock Barkley, Charlotte, N. C., for Mecklenburg County Board of Education. C. Eugene McCartha, Charlotte, N. C., on the brief.

William T. Joyner, Raleigh, N. C., for defendants Members of North Carolina Advisory Committee on Education.

Malcolm B. Seawell, Atty. Gen. of North Carolina, Ralph Moody, Asst. Atty. Gen., for members of North Carolina State Board of Education.


WARLICK, Chief Judge.

This is a civil action instituted by the fathers of eight Negro children, seeking to enjoin the defendant, the Mecklenburg County Board of Education from refusing to reassign the minor plaintiffs to certain schools within the Board's jurisdiction, on account of their race and color. Originally when the action was instituted plaintiffs sought a judgment of restraint and other relief from the defendant...

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