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NORTHCROSS v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CITY OF MEMPHIS

No. 15558.

333 F.2d 661 (1964)

Deborah A. NORTHCROSS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF MEMPHIS et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

June 12, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Derrick Bell, New York City, (A. W. Willis, Jr., R. B. Sugarmon, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., New York City, on the brief; H. T. Lockard, B. L. Hooks, B. F. Jones, Memphis, Tenn., of counsel), for appellants.

Jack Petree, Memphis, Tenn., Evans, Petree & Cobb, Memphis, Tenn., of counsel, for appellees.

Before WEICK, Chief Judge, and CECIL and O'SULLIVAN, Circuit Judges.

CECIL, Circuit Judge.

This cause was previously before this Court on appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. The subject of that appeal was the desegregation of the public schools of Memphis. We reversed the judgment of the District Court and remanded the case with instructions to enjoin the appellee Board of Education from operating a bi-racial school system or in the alternative to require the Board to adopt a plan looking...

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