BROWN v. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 20, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA

No. 9216.

328 F.2d 618 (1964)

Millicent F. BROWN, a minor, by J. Arthur Brown, her father and next friend, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 20, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA Thomas A. Carrere, Superintendent and members of the School Board, Defendants, and Mark Allen, Barbara Bellows, George Bellows, Julia Jeanne Canfield, Elizabeth S. Stack and William F. Stack by their respective fathers, Intervenors, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 27, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Stephen Leonard, Washington, D. C. (Burnet R. Maybank, Charleston, S. C., on brief), for intervenor-appellants.

Charles H. Gibbs, Charleston, S. C. (Sinkler, Gibbs & Simons, Charleston, S. C., A. T. Graydon and David W. Robinson, Columbia, S. C., on brief), for defendant-appellants.

Constance Baker Motley, New York City (Jack Greenberg, Michael Meltsner, New York City, Matthew J. Perry, Lincoln C. Jenkins, Jr., Columbia, S. C., F. Henderson Moore, Charleston, S. C., and Benjamin Cooke, on brief), for appellees.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and HAYNSWORTH, BOREMAN, BRYAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal by public school officials of Charleston, South Carolina, from an order of the District Court, passed on August 22, 1963, requiring them to admit and enroll as students for the school year beginning September, 1963, eleven Negro children, plaintiffs below. The court directed the appellants to admit these children to the schools where white children residing in the same school zones as the plaintiffs would be permitted to attend. The order...

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