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WRIGHT v. CITY OF BRIGHTON, ALABAMA

No. 29262.

441 F.2d 447 (1971)

Rebecca WRIGHT et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The CITY OF BRIGHTON, ALABAMA, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied and Rehearing Denied May 4, June 8, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Hood, Jr., Bessemar, Ala., Jack Greenberg, Norman Amaker, James M. Nabrit, III, New York City, Demetrius C. Newton, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Norman K. Brown, Bessemar, Ala., Hugh Locke, Birmingham, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Before THORNBERRY, GOLDBERG, and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing Denied and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 4, June 8, 1971.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

This case brings us to Brighton, a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, which is sited in the mainstream of the jurisprudential history of school desegregation.1 The immediate problem involves the sale of an abandoned school building by the City of Brighton, Alabama, to the Hoover Academy, a private all-white school. The plaintiffs, black...

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