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GREEN v. SCHOOL BOARD OF CITY OF ROANOKE, VIRGINIA

No. 8534.

304 F.2d 118 (1962)

Cynthia D. GREEN, an infant, and Rev. Emmett L. Green, her father and next friend, et al., Appellants, v. SCHOOL BOARD OF the CITY OF ROANOKE, VIRGINIA, a body corporate, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 22, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Nabrit, III, New York City (Jack Greenberg, New York City, and Reuben E. Lawson, Roanoke, Va., on brief), for appellants.

A. B. Scott, Richmond, Va. (Peyton, Beverley, Scott & Randolph, Richmond, Va., on brief), for Pupil Placement Board, appellee.

Sidney F. Parham, Jr., Roanoke, Va. (Woods, Rogers, Muse & Walker and Ran G. Whittle, City Atty., Roanoke, Va., on brief), for Roanoke City School Board and Division Superintendent, appellees.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and BOREMAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges.

SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

This action was begun in the District Court for the Western District of Virginia by twenty-eight Negro public school pupils and their representatives in the City of Roanoke to require the defendants to grant them transfers from Negro to white schools. The plaintiffs also prayed for an injunction against the continued operation of racially segregated schools in the city or for an order requiring city and state school officials to submit and effectuate...

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