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GRIFFIN v. SCHOOL BOARD

No. 592.

377 U.S. 218 (1964)

GRIFFIN ET AL. v. COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 25, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Carter argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the brief were S. W. Tucker and Frank D. Reeves.

R. D. McIlwaine III, Assistant Attorney General of Virginia, and J. Segar Gravatt argued the cause for respondents. With Mr. McIlwaine on the brief for the State Board of Education of Virginia et al. were Robert Y. Button, Attorney General of Virginia, and Frederick T. Gray. With Mr. Gravatt on the brief for the Board of Supervisors of Prince Edward County was William F. Watkins, Jr. John F. Kay, Jr. and C. F. Hicks filed a brief for respondents County School Board of Prince Edward County et al.

Solicitor General Cox, by special leave of Court, argued the cause for the United States, as amicus curiae, urging reversal. With him on the brief were Assistant Attorney General Marshall, William J. Vanden Heuvel, Louis F. Claiborne and Harold H. Greene.

Briefs of amici curiae, urging reversal, were filed by William B. Beebe and Hershel Shanks for the National Education Association, and by Landon Gerald Dowdey, T. Raber Taylor and C. Joseph Danahy for Citizens for Educational Freedom.

Brief of amicus curiae, urging affirmance, was filed by Geo. Stephen Leonard, Paul D. Summers, Jr., D. B. Marshall and Richard L. Hirshberg for the City of Charlottesville.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

This litigation began in 1951 when a group of Negro school children living in Prince Edward County, Virginia, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia alleging that they had been denied admission to public schools attended by white children and charging that Virginia laws requiring such school segregation denied complainants the equal protection

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