BECKETT v. SCHOOL BOARD OF CITY OF NORFOLK

Civ. A. No. 2214.

308 F.Supp. 1274 (1969)

Leola Pearl BECKETT et al., Plaintiffs, and Carlotta Mozelle Brewer et al., and United States of America, Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. The SCHOOL BOARD OF the CITY OF NORFOLK et al., Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

December 30, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hill, Tucker & Marsh, Henry L. Marsh, III, Richmond, Va., Louis R. Lucas, Memphis, Tenn., Victor J. Ashe, J. Hugo Madison, Norfolk, Va., Jack Greenberg and James M. Nabrit, III, New York City, Jerris Leonard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civil Rights Division, J. Harold Flannery and Charles K. Howard, Attys., Civil Rights Div., Justice Dept., Brian P. Gettings, U. S. Atty., Norfolk, Va., for plaintiffs and plaintiff-intervenors.

Leonard H. Davis, City Atty., Willcox, Savage, Lawrence, Dickson & Spindle, Toy D. Savage, Jr., and Allan G. Donn, Norfolk, Va., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, Chief Judge.

Fourteen years following the implementing decision in Brown v. Board of Education, 349 U.S. 294, 75 S.Ct. 753, 99 L.Ed. 1083 (1955), the courts, litigants, school children and parents remain confused with respect to the constitutional requirements touching the desegregation or integration of public schools. That Brown and the later cases have established the clear duty to operate...

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