MAPP v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENN.

No. 16877.

373 F.2d 75 (1967)

James Jonathan MAPP and Deborah L'Tanya Mapp, Minors, By James R. Mapp, their Father and next friend et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, HAMILTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

February 27, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Avon N. Williams, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., for appellants, Jack Greenberg, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., New York City, Z. Alexander Looby, Nashville, Tenn., on the brief.

Raymond B. Witt, Jr., Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellees, Witt, Gaither, Abernathy & Wilson, Chattanooga, Tenn., on the brief, Eugene N. Collins, Chattanooga, Tenn., of counsel.

Before WEICK, Chief Judge, and O'SULLIVAN and EDWARDS, Circuit Judges.


WEICK, Chief Judge.

The history of these proceedings dates back more than six years to the time when plaintiffs-appellants filed their original action in the District Court to compel the desegregation of the Chattanooga Public School System. Since the original order directing submission and execution of a plan of desegregation, both parties have prosecuted appeals to this Court involving various features of the plan and its administration. See 295...

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