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SINGLETON v. JACKSON MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT

No. 22527.

348 F.2d 729 (1965)

Derek Jerome SINGLETON, Minor, by Mrs. Edna Marie Singleton, his mother and next friend, et al., Appellants, v. JACKSON MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 22, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack H. Young, Jackson, Miss., Jack Greenberg, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., New York City, for appellants.

E. W. Stennett, Robert C. Cannada, Thomas H. Watkins, Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

The time has come for footdragging public school boards to move with celerity toward desegregation.1 Since May 17, 1954, public school boards throughout the country have known that they must desegregate their schools.2 And as the law moved with rising tempo to meet changing conditions, school boards might have foreseen that further delays would...

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