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WATSON v. CITY OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

No. 14662.

303 F.2d 863 (1962)

I. A. WATSON, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

June 12, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Derrick A. Bell, Jr., New York City, A. W. Willis, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., Constance Baker Motley, Thurgood Marshall, New York City, on brief; Elwood H. Chisolm, New York City, B. L. Hooks, C. O. Horton, B. F. Jones, H. T. Lockard, R. B. Sugarmon, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., of counsel, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Thomas R. Prewitt and Frank B. Gianotti, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., J. S. Allen — Walter Chandler, Memphis, Tenn., on brief, for defendants-appellees.

Before McALLISTER and O'SULLIVAN, Circuit Judges, and STARR, Senior District Judge.

McALLISTER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court denying a permanent injunction restraining the Memphis Park Commission and others from operating and maintaining certain public recreational facilities on a racially-segregated basis; approving a plan proposed by appellees for a gradual desegregation of certain of these facilities; and ordering the Memphis Park Commission to file, within a six-months' period, a further plan for the...

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