TAYLOR v. BOARD OF ED. OF CITY SCH. DIST. OF NEW ROCHELLE


195 F.Supp. 231 (1961)

Leslie TAYLOR and Kevin Taylor, minors, by Wilbert Taylor and Hallie Taylor, their parents and next friends, et al., Plaintiffs v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF CITY OF NEW ROCHELLE and Herbert C. Clish, as Superintendent of Schools of the City School District of the City of New Rochelle, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

May 31, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Zuber and Thurgood Marshall, New York City (Constance Baker Motley, New York City, of counsel) for plaintiffs.

Murray C. Fuerst, New Rochelle, N. Y., and Julius Weiss, New York City, for defendants.

Burke Marshall, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert M. Morgenthau U. S. Atty., New York City, Harold H. Greene, Isabel Blair, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., amici curiæ.


IRVING R. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

I. History of the Litigation

In an opinion dated January 24, 1961,1 this Court found that the Board of Education of the City of New Rochelle had intentionally created and maintained the Lincoln Elementary School as a racially segregated school, and had not acted in good faith to implement desegregation as required by the Fourteenth Amendment. It was the Court's position that since the Board...

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