GRIER v. SPECIALIZED SKILLS, INC.

Civ. A. No. 2392.

326 F.Supp. 856 (1971)

Olin Clayton GRIER, Jr., and James Weathers, Jr., Plaintiffs, v. SPECIALIZED SKILLS, INC. trading as Charlotte Barber School, and Brown Sparks, Manager of the Charlotte Barber School, Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. North Carolina, Charlotte Division.

February 5, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Conrad O. Pearson, Durham, N. C., Jack Greenberg and James M. Nabrit, III, New York City, and Adam Stein, Chambers, Stein, Ferguson & Lanning, Charlotte, N. C., for plaintiffs.

Alvin A. Thomas, Craige, Brawley, Horton & Graham, Winston-Salem, N. C., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER

McMILLAN, District Judge.

PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

This is an action, filed September 8, 1968, brought by Negro plaintiffs against Specialized Skills, Inc., doing business as the Charlotte Barber School, and Brown Sparks, its manager, seeking injunctive relief requiring the school to admit the plaintiffs as trainees in their professional barber training program and to allow blacks as well as whites the opportunity...

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