UNITED STATES v. ELLOREE SCH. DIST. NO. 7, ORANGEBURG CO., S. C.

Civ. A. No. 67-628.

283 F.Supp. 557 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, by Ramsey CLARK, Attorney General of the United States, Plaintiff, v. ELLOREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 7, ORANGEBURG COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, a public body corporate; Hugo L. Felkel, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Elloree School District Number 7, Orangeburg County; C. Francis Martin, James Howard Shirer, Jakie Felder, and Jack Ford, Members of the Board of Trustees of Elloree School District Number 7, Orangeburg County, South Carolina; and M. G. Austin, Superintendent of Elloree School District Number 7, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, Defendants.

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

April 3, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Klyde Robinson, U. S. Atty., Columbia, S. C., Frank E. Schwelb, Frank W. Hill, Robert B. Hocutt, Attys., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Augustus T. Graydon, Graydon & Davis, Columbia, S. C., for defendant.


FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, OPINION AND ORDER

DONALD RUSSELL, District Judge.

Filed by the Attorney General under Section 407 of the Civil Rights Act of 19641 and supported by his certificate of the essential jurisdictional facts thereunder,2 this action seeks the desegregation of the public schools maintained by the defendant school district.

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