LeBEAUF v. STATE BD. OF EDUCATION OF LOUISIANA

Civ. A. No. 3154.

244 F.Supp. 256 (1965)

Lori LeBEAUF et al., Plaintiffs, v. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF LOUISIANA, as a corporate body, and W. E. Whetstone, individually, and as President of the Louisiana State Board of Education, and William J. Dodd, individually and as Superintendent of Public Education of the State of Louisiana, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division.

July 27, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. P. Tureaud, A. M. Trudeau, Jr., Ernest N. Morial, New Orleans, La., Lionel R. Collins, Gretna, La., Jesse N. Stone, Jr., Shreveport, La., Marion O. White, Opelousas, La., Jack Greenberg, Norman Amaker, New York City, New York, for plaintiffs.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, Thomas W. McFerrin, Frank L. Dobson, James E. Phillips, Jr., Sp. Counsel, Baton Rouge, La., for defendants.


WEST, District Judge.

This suit was filed in an attempt to bring about the immediate desegregation of all public schools in the State of Louisiana without the necessity of filing separate suits against the various parish school boards under whose supervision and control the affected schools operate. In an attempt to accomplish this purpose, this suit is filed as a class action against the State Board of Education, its President, the State Superintendent of Public...

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