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WILLIAMS v. SUMTER SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 2

Civ. A. No. AC-1534.

255 F.Supp. 397 (1966)

Irene WILLIAMS, Plaintiff, v. SUMTER SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 2, a public body corporate, Dan L. Reynolds, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Sumter School District Number 2, Sumter, South Carolina, and H. Curtis Edens, Jr., Clarence E. Phillips, Jr., W. Hazel McCoy and Russell F. Jones, Members, Board of Trustees of Sumter School District Number 2, Sumter, South Carolina; and Hugh T. Stoddard, Superintendent of Sumter School District Number 2, Sumter, South Carolina, Defendants.

United States District Court D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

June 15, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest A. Finney, Jr., Sumter, S. C., Donald James Sampson, Greenville, S. C., Lincoln C. Jenkins, Jr., Matthew J. Perry, Columbia, S. C., and Jack Greenberg, New York City, for plaintiff.

Shepard K. Nash, Sumter, S. C., for defendants.

HEMPHILL, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a Negro citizen and school teacher, of Sumter, South Carolina, brings this action complaining that defendants acting under the color of authority1 invested in them by the laws of South Carolina failed and refused to offer renewal of her contract to teach in the Sumter County Schools for the 1964-65 school year "by reason of the civil rights activities and associations designed to end racial discrimination...

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