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ALLEN v. COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY

Civ. A. No. 1333.

198 F.Supp. 497 (1961)

Eva ALLEN et al. v. COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, etc. et al.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

August 25, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. W. Tucker, Emporia, Va., Robert L. Carter, New York City, for petitioners.

Frederick T. Gray, Atty. Gen., of Virginia, R. D. McIlwaine, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Virginia, J. Segar Gravatt, Blackstone, Va., Frank N. Watkins, Farmville, Va., Collins Denny, Jr., John F. Kay, Jr., William C. King, Richmond, Va., for respondents.

LEWIS, District Judge.

The issues raised, in this phase of the Prince Edward County school case, are:

Whether or not Prince Edward County can close and refuse to maintain its heretofore existing free public school system in order to avoid the racial discrimination prohibited by the Supreme Court of the United States, in Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873; 349 U.S. 294

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