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HANEY v. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SEVIER COUNTY, ARK.

No. 19404.

410 F.2d 920 (1969)

Lela Mae HANEY et al., Appellants, v. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SEVIER COUNTY, ARKANSAS, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

May 9, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin E. White, New York City, for appellants; Norman J. Chachkin, Little Rock, Ark., Jack Greenberg and Michael Meltsner, New York City, and John W. Walker, Little Rock, Ark., were with him on the brief.

John B. Hainen, DeQueen, Ark., for appellees.

Merle W. Loper, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States as amicus curiae; Stephen J. Pollak, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Nathan Lewin, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Charles M. Conway, U. S. Atty., Fort Smith, Ark., were with him on the brief.

Before MATTHES, MEHAFFY and LAY, Circuit Judges.

LAY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court in the Western District of Arkansas dismissing a complaint brought upon behalf of several plaintiffs, Negro parents and children to enjoin the continued maintenance of a racially segregated system of public education in Sevier County in Southwestern Arkansas. The defendants are the County Board of Education of Sevier County, the County Supervisor of Education of Sevier County, the Lockesburg...

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