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DODSON v. SCHOOL BOARD OF CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE

No. 8238.

289 F.2d 439 (1961)

Carolyn M. DODSON, an infant who sues by Sarah B. Brooks, her next friend, Melvina Hamilton and Gloria Hamilton, infants who sue by Gertrude Hamilton, their next friend, et al., Appellants, v. SCHOOL BOARD OF CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, and Fendall R. Ellis, Division Superintendent of Schools of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 14, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. W. Tucker, Emporia, Va. (Oliver W. Hill, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellants.

John S. Battle, Jr., Richmond, Va. (Bremner, Neal, Harris, Williams & Battle, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellees.

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

SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

Ten Negro pupils attending public schools in the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, prosecute this appeal from the action of the District Court sustaining the School Board's denial of their applications for enrollment in white schools of that city. The appellants also seek judicial re-examination of the desegregation plan presently in effect in Charlottesville.

A brief account of the progress of desegregation in Charlottesville would...

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