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CHAMBERS v. HENDERSONVILLE CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION

Civ. No. 2388.

245 F.Supp. 759 (1965)

Grace CHAMBERS, Doris Yvonne Greene, Mary Ann White, and the North Carolina Teachers Association, a corporation, Plaintiffs, v. The HENDERSONVILLE CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION, a public body corporate, Defendant.

United States District Court W. D. North Carolina, Asheville Division.

September 30, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Conrad O. Pearson, Durham, N. C., Jack Greenberg, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., and Melvyn Zarr, New York City, J. LeVonne Chambers, Charlotte, N. C., Ruben J. Dailey and Robert L. Harrell, Asheville, N. C., Eddie Tucker, Jackson, Miss., and LeMarquis DeJarmon, Durham, N. C., for plaintiffs.

Arthur B. Shepherd, L. B. Prince, and Jonathan W. Jackson, Hendersonville, N. C., for defendant.

CRAVEN, Chief Judge.

This is a class action brought by three Negro teachers and the North Carolina Teachers Association1 against the Hendersonville City Board of Education. The teachers and the Association seek to invoke the equitable jurisdiction of the court, and allege that the School Board has denied reemployment as teachers to the individual plaintiffs and other Negro teachers, because...

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