SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL COMMITTEE et al., Defendants, Appellants,
v.
Abraham BARKSDALE, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
July 12, 1965.
July 12, 1965.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
James L. Allen, City Sol., with whom John J. O'Connor, Associate City Sol., Springfield, Mass., was on brief, for appellants.
Robert L. Carter, New York City, with whom Joan Franklin, Barbara A. Morris, New York City, Henry Weissman, Springfield, Mass., Anne Feldman, and Lewis M. Steel, New York City, were on brief, for appellees.
Reuben Goodman, Edward J. Barshak, and Stephen Morse, Boston, Mass., on brief of American Jewish Congress, Catholic Interracial Council, Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity, Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, and Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston, amici curiae.
Edward W. Brooke, Atty. Gen., and Raymond H. Young, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief of Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, amicus curiae.
Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge, and GIGNOUX, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.
ALDRICH, Chief Judge.
This is a class action brought on behalf of Negro children requesting the United States District Court to eliminate what has sometimes come to be called de facto segregation1 in the elementary and junior high schools in Springfield, Massachusetts. The defendants are the Springfield School Committee, its members, and its Superintendent of Schools. The district court held hearings in Springfield, and after considering...
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