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WALTON v. NASHVILLE, ARKANSAS SPECIAL SCHOOL DIST. NO. 1

Nos. 19062, 19061.

401 F.2d 137 (1968)

Mrs. Ernestine WALTON, Claude E. King, Jr., and Major Reynolds White, Appellants, v. The NASHVILLE, ARKANSAS SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1, a Public Body Corporate, and Elbert Thomas Moody, Superintendent, Appellees. Charles McGHEE et al., Appellants, v. The NASHVILLE, ARKANSAS SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1, a Public Body Corporate, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

September 27, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman J. Chachkin, Little Rock, Ark., for appellants; John W. Walker, Little Rock, Ark., and Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, and Michael M. Meltsner, New York City, on the brief.

Damon Young, of Shaver, Tackett & Jones, Texarkana, Ark., for appellees; Boyd Tackett and Nicholas H. Patton, Texarkana, Ark., on the brief.

Before VOGEL, BLACKMUN and LAY, Circuit Judges.

BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge.

These appeals, as have so many others recently, present public school integration problems. The site is Nashville, Arkansas. Nashville is a county seat town of about 4000 population in the southwestern part of the State.

In one case, our No. 19,061, Charles McGhee and his coplaintiffs sought, to use the language of the appellants' brief, "to have the all-Negro * * * school closed because it is inferior and inadequate." They were not...

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