JACKSON MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT v. EVERS

Nos. 21851-52, 21878.

357 F.2d 653 (1966)

JACKSON MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Appellants, v. Darrell Kenyatta EVERS et al., Appellees. BILOXI MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Appellants, v. Gilbert R. MASON, Jr., et al., Appellees. LEAKE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD et al., Appellants, v. Dian HUDSON et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Certiorari Denied May 14, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Edwin Smith, Carthage, Miss., Will S. Wells, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., Harold W. Davidson, Carthage Miss., for appellants Leake County Schl. Bd. and others.

Thomas H. Watkins, Jackson, Miss., Victor B. Pringle, Biloxi, Miss., Dugas Shands, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for appellants Biloxi Municipal Separate School Dist. and others.

R. Carter Pittman, Dalton, Ga., Robert C. Cannada, Thomas H. Watkins, E. W. Stennett, Dan H. Shell, Jackson, Miss., George S. Leonard, Washington, D. C., Dugas Shands, Asst. Atty. Gen., Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss., for appellants Jackson Municipal Separate School Dist. and others, attorneys for appellants in No. 21851, Dan H. Shell, Jackson, Miss., attorney for intervenors in No. 21851.

R. Jess Brown, Jack H. Young, Jackson, Miss., Derrick A. Bell, Jr., Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley, New York City, for appellees in all actions.

Before WHITAKER, Senior Judge, and WISDOM and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied May 14, 1966. See 86 S.Ct. 1586.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

These cases tax the patience of the Court.

More than ten years have passed since Brown v. Board of Education, 1954, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873. Decisions too numerous to mention in this Court and in the Supreme Court show unyielding judicial approval of the legal principle that segregated schooling is inherently unequal. The principle...

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