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MAPP v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENN

Nos. 15038, 15039.

319 F.2d 571 (1963)

James Jonathan MAPP et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, et al., Defendants-Appellees. James Jonathan MAPP et al., Plaintiffs-Cross-Appellees, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, et al., Defendants-Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

July 8, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Constance Baker Motley, New York City, and Avon N. Williams, Jr., Nashville, Tenn. (Jack Greenberg, Leroy D. Clark, New York City, Z. Alexander Looby, Nashville, Tenn., Bruce Boynton, Chattanooga, Tenn., on the brief), for James Jonathan Mapp and others.

Raymond B. Witt, Jr., Chattanooga, Tenn. (Witt, Gaither, Abernathy, Caldwell & Wilson, Chattanooga, Tenn., on the brief), for Board of Education of City of Chattanooga and others.

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

O'SULLIVAN, Circuit Judge.

This school desegregation case involves the public schools of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The plaintiffs, a group of Negro public school children of Chattanooga, appearing by their parents, as next friends, filed their complaint on April 6, 1960, asking an injunction to compel the desegregation of that city's public schools. The Chattanooga schools were at that time admittedly segregated. In its answer...

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