GANTT v. CLEMSON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

No. 8871.

320 F.2d 611 (1963)

Harvey B. GANTT, a minor, by his father and next friend, Christopher Gantt, Appellant, v. The CLEMSON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, a public body corporate, R. M. Cooper, President of the Board of Trustees of The Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina, Edgar A. Brown, et al., Members of the Board of Trustees, etc., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 16, 1963.

Certiorari Denied October 14, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew J. Perry, Columbia, S. C., and Constance Baker Motley, New York City (Jack Greenberg, New York City, Lincoln C. Jenkins, Jr., Columbia, S. C., Donald James Sampson, Willie T. Smith, Jr., Greenville, S. C., and Derrick Bell, New York City, on brief), for appellant.

William L. Watkins (Watkins, Vandiver, Freeman & Kirven, Anderson, S. C., and P. H. McEachin, Florence, S. C., on brief), for appellees.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied October 14, 1963. See 84 S.Ct. 46.

PER CURIAM.

Harvey B. Gantt, a nineteen-year-old Negro resident of Charleston, South Carolina, is presently enrolled as a student in the Architectural School of Iowa State University. Since January, 1961, he has been seeking, without success, admission to Clemson College, the only institution in his native state that offers architectural courses.

In October 1962, we heard his appeal from the District...

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