STELL v. SAVANNAH-CHATHAM COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION

Civ. A. No. 1316.

220 F.Supp. 667 (1963)

Ralph STELL, a minor by L. S. Stell, Jr., his father and next friend, et al., Plaintiffs, v. SAVANNAH-CHATHAM COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., Defendants, and Lawrence Roberts and Daniel Roberts, minors by Adrienne Roberts, their mother and next friend, et al., Intervenors.

United States District Court S. D. Georgia, Savannah Division.

June 28, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. Clarence Mayfield, E. H. Gadsden, Savannah, Ga., Donald L. Hollowell, Atlanta, Ga., Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., New York City, for plaintiffs.

Basil Morris, Savannah, Ga., E. Freeman Leverett, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for defendants.

R. Carter Pittman, Dalton, Ga., Charles J. Bloch, Macon, Ga., J. Walter Cowart, Savannah, Ga., George S. Leonard, Washington, D. C., for intervenors.


SCARLETT, District Judge.

The Issues

This is a class action in the right of the minor Negro plaintiffs as students in public schools of Savannah-Chatham County to enjoin defendant Board of Education from operating a bi-racial school system. Alternately plaintiffs pray a mandatory injunction to compel defendants to submit a plan for the admission of Negro applicants to the white schools now maintained in Savannah-Chatham County.

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