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JAMES v. CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Civ. A. No. AC-1163.

235 F.Supp. 911 (1964)

Frederic C. JAMES, E. McRay Miller, and Booker T. Williams, Plaintiffs, v. The CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY, a public body corporate, Julian Buxton, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Public Library, Isaac Sanders, Mrs. Richard Baker, Mrs. H. E. Drevenstedt, George A. James, Raymond Schwartz, and Mrs. Alice Leavell, Members of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Public Library, and Chapman J. Milling, Jr., Librarian of the Carnegie Public Library, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

November 17, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jenkins & Perry, Columbia, S. C., Ernest A. Finney, Jr., Sumter, S. C., and Jack Greenberg, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Nash & Wilson, Sumter, S. C., for defendants.

SIMONS, District Judge.

This is a class action under the provisions of Rule 23 (a) (3) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, plaintiffs alleging that they are negro citizens and residents of the City and County of Sumter, S. C., and of the United States, who have been denied the use of public library facilities in the City and County of Sumter, South Carolina because of their race. They set forth in paragraph 1 of the...

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