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

No. 8383.

295 F.2d 390 (1961)

Woodrow W. HOOD, Peggy Ann Hood, Lever Ray, Irma Ray, Henry Lowrey, Ruth Lowrey, Samuel L. Buckner, Connie Buckner, Eugene Ray, Viola Ray, Heywood Benenhaley, Stella Benenhaley, Raymond Benenhaley, Nell Benenhaley, Wallace Benenhaley and Myrtie Benenhaley, 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.

October 17, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira Kaye, Sumter, S. C., Rowland Watts, New York City, for appellants.

Shepard K. Nash and John S. Wilson, Sumter, S. C., for appellees.

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

PER CURIAM.

Whereas, it appears from the record in this case that the plaintiffs, who reside in Sumter County, South Carolina and call themselves Turks and members of the Caucasian race, complain that in the past children of their race, being of darker color, have not been admitted to the public schools of the county in equality with the white children residing in the county and have been required to attend a separate school...

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