ROSS v. DYER

Civ. A. No. 10444.

203 F.Supp. 124 (1962)

Delores ROSS, a Minor, by her Mother and Next Friend, Mary Alice Benjamin, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Mrs. Frank DYER, as President of the Board of Trustees of the Houston Independent School District, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

March 19, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thurgood Marshall, New York City, U. Simpson Tate, Dallas, Tex., Henry Doyle, and Weldon H. Berry, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff Delores Ross, et al.

Thompson, Hippard & Gibson, James J. Hippard, Houston, Tex., for intervening plaintiff, Norman E. Smith, and others.

Bracewell, Reynolds & Patterson, Joe H. Reynolds, Houston, Tex., for defendants.


CONNALLY, District Judge.

On August 12, 1960, after full hearing and consideration, this Court entered an order in this proceeding directing that the defendant School District begin a program of desegregation with the September, 1960 school term, at which time the first grade would be desegregated, with an additional grade to be desegregated each year thereafter. On appeal to the Court of Appeals for this Circuit, Houston Independent School Dist. v. Ross, 5 Cir.,...

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