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ZANDERS v. LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

Civ. A. No. 13427.

281 F.Supp. 747 (1968)

Willie M. ZANDERS et al. v. LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION and Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones, in his capacity as President of Grambling College of Louisiana.

United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Monroe Division.

March 8, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Sobol, Donald Juneau, and Robert P. Roberts, New Orleans, La., Paul H. Kidd, Ruston, La., Collins, Douglas & Elie, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, Thomas W. McFerrin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, La., Robert U. Goodman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Shreveport, La., for defendants.

BEN C. DAWKINS, Jr., Chief Judge.

RULING

Unlike the great majority of civil rights controversies, this one, oddly enough, basically and exclusively involves a clash among members of the Negro race.

Except that the members of the Louisiana State Board of Education, all white, who reviewed the case in a full trial de novo, there were no racial overtones presented. From all that appears in the Record, the Board "leaned over backward" in hearing...

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