CHRISTIAN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF STRONG SCH. DIST. NO. 83

Nos. 20381, 20447.

440 F.2d 608 (1971)

Asa M. CHRISTIAN et al., Appellants, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF STRONG SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 83 OF UNION COUNTY et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

April 16, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, Norman J. Chachkin, New York City, John W. Walker, Philip E. Kaplan, Walker, Kaplan, Lavey & Mays, Little Rock, Ark., for appellants.

H. Derrell Dickens, William I. Prewett, El Dorado, Ark., for appellees.

Before GIBSON and BRIGHT, Circuit Judges, and McMANUS, Chief District Judge.


BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, parents of black children and suing on behalf of those children, challenge the method and pace of school desegregation in response to orders of the district court directed to the Board of Education of the Strong School District located in Union County, a rural county in Arkansas. Having reviewed the record on this appeal, we remand this case to the district court with instructions to continue its supervision of the desegregation...

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