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HOOD v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SUMTER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2, SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA

No. 8221.

286 F.2d 236 (1961)

Woodrow W. HOOD, Peggy Ann Hood, Lever Ray, Irma Ray, and Henry Lowrey, Appellants, v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SUMTER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2, SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, J. E. Mayes, Jr., Chairman of said Board, H. E. Kirven, C. W. Goodman, W. T. Brogdon, J. Elbert Davis, Jr., Members of said Board, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 25, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira Kaye, Sumter, S. C. (Rowland Watts, New York City, on the brief), for appellants.

John S. Wilson, Sumter, S. C. (Shepard K. Nash, Sumter, S. C., on the brief), for appellees.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

This action was commenced on August 31, 1953, by a group of elementary school pupils residing in Sumter County, South Carolina, calling themselves "Turks" and members of the Caucasian race, in which they complained that they were required to attend a segregated primary school attended only by Turks.1

After denial of the motion for summary judgment, an appeal was taken to this Court. This Court held that the denial of...

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