HARRIS v. GIBSON

No. 20871.

322 F.2d 780 (1963)

Carolyn Eleanor HARRIS, a minor, by Taylor Harris, her guardian and next friend, et al., Appellants-Intervenors, v. Linda Sue GIBSON and Brenda Gibson, minors, by Thomas L. Gibson, their father and next friend, and Thomas L. Gibson, individually, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Glynn County Board of Education, a public body existing under the laws of Georgia, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

September 12, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Constance Baker Motley, New York City, Donald L. Hollowell, Horace T. Ward, Atlanta, Ga., for appellants.

Carter Pittman, Dalton, Ga., Geo. L. Leonard, Washington, D. C., B. N. Nightingale, Brunswick, Ga., Barrie L. Jones, Alma, Ga., Alan B. Smith, Brunswick, Ga., for appellees.

Before RIVES, BROWN, and BELL, Circuit Judges.


GRIFFIN B. BELL, Circuit Judge.

The minor appellants are six Negro children presently enrolled in the public schools of Glynn County, Georgia. An application for transfer from the Negro high school to Glynn Academy, the white high school in Glynn County on behalf of each minor appellant, some to the eleventh and some to the twelfth grades, was granted by the appellee Board of Education for the 1963-64 school year which commenced on August 28, 1963. On August 27, 1963...

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