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WILLINGHAM v. PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS, SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 3

No. 20122.

425 F.2d 121 (1970)

Iris Denise WILLINGHAM et al., Appellants, v. PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS, SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 3, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

April 29, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Walker, of Walker, Rotenberry, Kaplan, Lavey & Hollingsworth, Little Rock, Ark., for appellants; Philip E. Kaplan, Little Rock, Ark., and Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, and Norman Chachkin, New York City, on the brief.

Robert V. Light, Little Rock, Ark., for appellees; Herschel H. Friday and G. Ross Smith, Little Rock, Ark., and Charles B. Roscopf, Helena, Ark., on the brief.

Before MATTHES, LAY and HEANEY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

The Pine Bluff School District is a large consolidated district with an enrollment of approximately 4000 Negro and 5400 white students. It operated on a racially segregated basis until July of 1963. At that time the District announced that it would desegregate its schools under a freedom of choice plan. Under the plan, grades 1 and 2 were to be desegregated in the 1963-64 school year, grades 3 and 4 in 1964-65, and the remaining grades in subsequent years...

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