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WOODS v. WRIGHT

No. 20875.

334 F.2d 369 (1964)

Linda Cal WOODS, a minor by her father and next friend, Rev. Calvin Woods, Appellant, v. Theo R. WRIGHT, Superintendent of Schools of the City of Birmingham, Alabama, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 20, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orzell Billingsley, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., Herbert O. Reid, Sr., Washington, D. C., Arthur D. Shores, Birmingham, Ala., Constance B. Motley, Jack Greenberg, George B. Smith, New York City, for appellant, Leroy D. Clark, New York City, of counsel.

Reid B. Barnes, William G. Somerville, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., for appellee, Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, Birmingham, Ala., of counsel.

Before RIVES and JONES, Circuit Judges, and BOOTLE, District Judge.

JONES, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Linda Cal Woods, a Negro girl living in Birmingham, Alabama, was a pupil in Washington School, a public school of that City. She brought suit on May 21, 1963, in the United States District Court, by her father and next friend, Calvin Woods, for herself and others similarly situated, against Theo R. Wright, Superintendent of Schools of the City of Birmingham. The complaint alleges that...

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