HENDERSON v. IBERIA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD

Civ. A. No. 11126.

245 F.Supp. 419 (1965)

James H. HENDERSON, Jr., Edythe Jeannelle Henderson and Eryn Janyce Henderson, minors, by their father and next friend, James H. Henderson, Sr., Alice Perry and Antoine Perry, minors, by their father and next friend, Tom Perry, Raymond Boudreaux Derouin, a minor, by her mother and next friend, Ethel Derouin, v. IBERIA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD, a corporation, and F. F. Wimberly, Superintendent.

United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Lafayette Division.

Supplemental Opinion July 6, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. P. Tureaud, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs.

Knowles Tucker, Dist. Atty., Iberia Parish, New Iberia, La., for defendants.


PUTNAM, District Judge.

This class action is brought by plaintiffs, Negro children residing in the Parish of Iberia, Louisiana, against the School Board of the Parish, its members, superintendent, agents and employees and all others acting in concert with them, seeking to enjoin what is alleged to be a biracial or segregated school system. The defendants have answered, denied the allegations of the complaint, and while admitting that the school system of the parish...

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