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MONROE v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, CITY OF JACKSON, TENN.

Nos. 17118, 17119.

380 F.2d 955 (1967)

Brenda K. MONROE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, CITY OF JACKSON, TENNESSEE, et al., and County Board of Education, Madison County, Tennessee, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

July 21, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Z. Alexander Looby, Nashville, Tenn. (Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, and Michael Meltsner, New York City, Gerald A. Smith, Baltimore, Md., and Avon N. Williams, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., on the brief), for appellants.

Russell Rice, Jackson, Tenn., for Board of Com'rs of City of Jackson and others.

Jack Manhein, Sr., Jackson, Tenn., for County Board of Education of Madison County and others.

Before O'SULLIVAN, PHILLIPS and PECK, Circuit Judges.

O'SULLIVAN, Circuit Judge.

In 1963 a suit was filed by Brenda K. Monroe and others, Negro children and their parents, to bring about the desegregation of the public schools of the City of Jackson, and of Madison County, Tennessee.1

The District Court required the school authorities to submit plans to accomplish desegregation and ultimately granted the relief sought by approving parts of...

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