UNITED STATES v. COFFEEVILLE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DIST.

Nos. WC 69-47-K, WC 70-47-K.

365 F.Supp. 990 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. COFFEEVILLE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants. Stephen BROWN et al., Plaintiffs, v. COFFEEVILLE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Mississippi, W. D.

October 12, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. M. Ray, U. S. Atty., James O. Ford, Oxford, Miss., for plaintiffs.

Hardy Lott, Greenwood, Miss., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

KEADY, Chief Judge.

This suit seeks the reinstatement, award of back pay, and other relief for six black teachers, Alma Faye Chapman, Robert Bennett, Martha Faye Bolton, William Shelton, James A. Lewis, and Evelyn R. Miller, who were dismissed, or whose contracts were not renewed, for the 1971-72 school year by the Coffeeville Consolidated School District. Each teacher had been employed in the formerly black schools at Coffeeville prior...

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