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MEREDITH v. FAIR

No. 19394.

298 F.2d 696 (1962)

James H. MEREDITH, on behalf of himself and others similarly situated, Appellant, v. Charles Dickson FAIR, President of the Board of Trustees of the State Institutions of Higher Learning, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

On Petition for Rehearing April 10, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Constance Baker Motley, New York City, R. Jess Brown, Vicksburg, Miss., for appellant.

Dugas Shands, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charles Clark, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and RIVES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

James H. Meredith is a Mississippi Negro in search of an education. Mississippi is one of three states which have not yet allowed a Negro citizen to seek an education at any of its state-supported, "white" colleges and universities.1

After graduation from high school at the age of seventeen, Meredith volunteered for the United States Air Force. He was honorably discharged nine years later. During his years...

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