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MOORE v. BOARD OF ED. OF CHIDESTER SCH. DIST. NO. 59, ARK.

No. 20416.

448 F.2d 709 (1971)

Addie MOORE et al., Appellants, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CHIDESTER SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 59, CHIDESTER, ARKANSAS, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

September 13, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Mays, Little Rock, Ark., Philip E. Kaplan, Walker, Kaplan, Lavey & Mays, Little Rock, Ark., Jack Greenberg, James Nabrit, III, Buford Kaigler, New York City, for appellants.

William I. Prewett, El Dorado, Ark., Brown, Compton, Prewett & Dickens, ElDorado, Ark., for appellees.

Before LAY, HEANEY and BRIGHT, Circuit Judges.

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

The principal question in this appeal is whether the Board of Education of the Chidester School District has unlawfully discriminated against the plaintiff black teachers by failing to provide employment for them following the integration of the previously segregated school system.

Chidester School District has historically operated a dual school system with the black pupils attending Pleasant Hills School and the white pupils attending...

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