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GOSS v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CITY OF KNOXVILLE, TENN.

No. 14425.

301 F.2d 164 (1962)

Josephine GOSS, and Thomas A. Goss, Infants, by Ralph Goss, Their Father and Next Friend, et al., Appellants, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, a Body Corporate or Continuous Legal Entity, c/o Dr. John H. Burkhart, President, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

April 3, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Avon N. Williams, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., and Jack Greenberg, New York City, for appellants, Carl A. Cowan, Knoxville, Tenn., Z. Alexander Looby, Nashville, Tenn., Jack Greenberg and Thurgood Marshall, New York City, on the brief.

S. Frank Fowler, Knoxville, Tenn., for appellees, Claude K. Robertson, Fowler, Rowntree & Fowler, Knoxville, Tenn., on the brief.

Before CECIL, WEICK and O'SULLIVAN, Circuit Judges.

CECIL, Circuit Judge.

This cause is before the Court on appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Northern Division, concerning the desegregation of the school system of the city of Knoxville, Tennessee.

The appellants were plaintiffs in the District Court and are all Negro citizens of the United States and state of Tennessee, and residents of the city of Knoxville. They are children who were attending...

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