CHRISTMAS v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF HARFORD COUNTY, MD.

Civ. No. 15532.

231 F.Supp. 331 (1964)

Jo Ellen CHRISTMAS and Joel L. Christmas, minors, by their mother and next friend, Mary E. Christmas, et al., Plaintiffs, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF HARFORD COUNTY, MARYLAND, Charles F. Reed, Mrs. Jason H. Pate, Mrs. Robert Fletcher, Clark Connellee and Thomas Galbreath, Members of the Board of Education of Harford County, and Charles W. Willis, Superintendent of Schools of Harford County, Maryland, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

June 23, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Juanita Jackson Mitchell and Tucker R. Dearing, Baltimore, Md., and Frank H. Heffron, New York City, for plaintiffs.

John F. King, Baltimore, Md., and Edward C. Wilson, Jr., Bel Air, Md., for defendants.


THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

In this class action filed on May 1, 1964, Negro plaintiffs seek an injunction restraining defendants, the Board of Education of Harford County and the Superintendent of Schools, from: (A) refusing to adopt and implement a plan providing for the elimination of segregated schools in Harford County by September 1964, rather than in four steps ending September 1967, as proposed by defendants; (B) discriminating on the basis of race in hiring new...

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