JACKSON v. WHEATLEY SCH. DIST. NO. 28, ST. FRANCIS CTY., ARK.

No. 73-1364.

489 F.2d 608 (1973)

L. R. JACKSON and Mittie Jackson, Appellants, v. WHEATLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 28 OF ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 28, 1973.

Rehearing Denied January 30, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip E. Kaplan, Little Rock, Ark., for appellants.

E. J. Butler, Forrest City, Ark., for appellees.

Before GIBSON, Circuit Judge, MOORE, Senior Circuit Judge, and WEBSTER, Circuit Judge.


WEBSTER, Circuit Judge.

This is the third appeal to this court in a controversy that began in 1968 when four black elementary school teachers and the Arkansas Teachers Association filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas against the recently desegregated Wheatley School District, the district's superintendent, and the members of the School Board. Two of the individual plaintiffs were L. R. Jackson and his wife, Mittie...

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