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THOMPSON v. MADISON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION

No. 72-1760.

476 F.2d 676 (1973)

Bennie G. THOMPSON et al., Individually, Etc., Plaintiffs, Evelyn K. Thomas and Wade E. Sutton, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MADISON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION and Robert E. Cox, Superintendent of the Madison County School District, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 13, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank R. Parker, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, James M. Abram, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

G. Milton Case, R. L. Goza, Case & Montgomery, Canton, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before GODBOLD, DYER and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

DYER, Circuit Judge:

Sutton and Thomas had been employed as teachers in the Madison County, Mississippi, school district but were not offered new contracts of employment for the 1970-71 school term. In their complaint, they sought injunctive relief from the school board's allegedly racially discriminatory refusal to rehire them as public school teachers. The district court found that the refusal of the Madison County Board of Education to rehire the two plaintiffs...

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