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SMITH v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF MORRILTON SCH. DIST. NO. 32

No. 18243.

365 F.2d 770 (1966)

Clement S. SMITH, and The Arkansas Teachers Association, Inc., and Margaret J. Sanders, Appellants, and United States of America, Intervenor-Appellant, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF MORRILTON SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 32, Dr. H. B. White, Felver Rowell, Jack Bland, W. O. Byrd, William Wafford, Wylie Cox, Directors of the Morrilton School District No. 32, and Terry Humble, Superintendent of Schools, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

September 14, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Meltsner, New York City, for appellants. John W. Walker, Harold Anderson, Little Rock, Ark., and Jack Greenberg and Derrick A. Bell, Jr., New York City, were on the brief.

James L. Kelley, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for United States, intervenor. John Doar, Asst. Atty. Gen., St. John Barrett, and Franklin E. White, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Robert D. Smith, Jr., U. S. Atty., Little Rock, Ark., was with him on the brief.

Robert V. Light, Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, BLACKMUN and GIBSON, Circuit Judges.

BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents issues which emerge in the wake of public school desegregation. Specifically, we are confronted with aspects of job protection, if any, afforded negro teachers by the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when desegregation results in the closing of an all-negro school. The district court dismissed the complaint on the merits. Thereafter, at the appellate stage, the Attorney General certified the case as...

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