BRADLEY v. SCHOOL BOARD OF CITY OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

No. 8757.

317 F.2d 429 (1963)

Minerva BRADLEY, I. A. Jackson, Jr., Rosa Lee Quarles, John Edward Johnson, Elihu C. Myers and Elizabeth S. Myers, Appellants, v. The SCHOOL BOARD of the CITY OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, H. I. Willet, Division Superintendent of Schools of the City of Richmond, Virginia, and E. J. Oglesby, Alfred L. Wingo and E. T. Justis, individually and constituting the Pupil Placement Board of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 10, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry L. Marsh, III, Richmond, Va. (S. W. Tucker, Richmond, Va., on brief) for appellants.

Henry T. Wickham, Sp. Counsel, City of Richmond (J. Elliott Drinard, City Atty., Richmond, Va., and Tucker, Mays, Moore & Reed, Richmond, Va., on brief) for appellees, The School Board of the City of Richmond, Virginia, and H. I. Willet, Division Superintendent of Schools.

Before BOREMAN, BRYAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges.


BOREMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a school case involving alleged racially discriminatory practices and the maintenance of public schools on a racially segregated basis in the City of Richmond, Virginia. In September 1961 eleven Negro pupils, their parents and guardians instituted this action to require the defendants to transfer the pupils from Negro public schools to white public schools.1 The...

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