HARRIS v. BULLOCK COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION

Civ. A. No. 2073-N.

232 F.Supp. 959 (1964)

James Ralph HARRIS and George Hopson Harris, minors, by James H. Harris and Ruby C. Harris, their parents and next friends, and Patricia Ann Tarver, a minor, by Sarah Jane Tarver, her grandmother and next friend, Plaintiffs, v. BULLOCK COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, R. E. L. Cope, Donald C. Parker, Jerrol F. Cope, Sam T. Hall, Jr., and Hugh B. Tompkins, Members of the Bullock County Board of Education, and Joe Stowers, Superintendent of Education of Bullock County, Alabama, Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Alabama, N. D.

August 5, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred D. Gray, Montgomery, Ala., Jack Greenberg and Charles H. Jones, Jr., New York City, for plaintiffs.

Ben Hardeman, U. S. Atty., Montgomery, Ala., and Jonathan B. Sutin, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., amici curiae.

Goodwyn & Smith, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants.


JOHNSON, District Judge.

This cause is now submitted upon the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction. Upon consideration of the evidence, this Court now makes the appropriate findings of fact and conclusions of law, embodying the same in this memorandum opinion.

This is a proceeding authorized by § 1343, Title 28 U.S.C.A., and § 1983, Title 42 U.S.C.A., brought by the several plaintiffs, who are Negro children suing through their parents...

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