CLARK v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DIST

Nos. 72-1406, 72-1407 and 72-1438.

465 F.2d 1044 (1972)

Delores CLARK et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 21, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

G. Ross Smith and Robert V. Light, Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.

Before HEANEY, BRIGHT, and ROSS, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

We are asked for the eighth time to review a district court decree purporting to establish a unitary school system in Little Rock, Arkansas.1 This time the principal question is whether the plan approved by the district court for desegregating elementary grades 1 through 5 meets constitutional standards.2 We find the plan satisfactory as to grades 4 and 5, unsatisfactory in part as to grades 1 through...

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