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BELL v. WEST POINT MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT

No. 30175.

446 F.2d 1362 (1971)

Hugh Larry BELL et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. WEST POINT MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 8, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred L. Banks, Jr., Melvyn R. Leventhal, Reuben V. Anderson and John A. Nichols, Jackson, Miss., Jonathan Shapiro, Jack Greenberg, James Nabrit, III, Norman Chachkin, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Thomas J. Tubb, West Point, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before THORNBERRY, MORGAN and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge:

In this school desegregation case the issue is whether the Board of Trustees for the West Point, Mississippi School District may validly close two schools as part of a plan to establish a unitary school system within the requirements of Green v. County School Board of New Kent County, 1968, 391 U.S. 430, 88 S.Ct. 1689, 20 L.Ed.2d 716, and Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, 1969,

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