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UNITED STATES v. WILCOX COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION

Nos. 71-3018, 73-3543.

494 F.2d 575 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, William P. Thompson et al., Intervenors-Appellants, Patsie Primm, as next friend of Bobbie Lewis Knight, et al., Intervenors, v. WILCOX COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied June 7, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles S. White-Spunner, U. S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., Elliott L. Richardson, U. S. Atty. Gen., J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. U. S. Atty. Gen., Brian K. Landsberg, John R. Scott, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellant.

A. J. Cooper, Prichard, Ala., Jack Greenberg, Norman J. Chachkin, New York City, for Thompson and others.

W. McLean Pitts, Selma, Ala., T. W. Thagard, Montgomery, Ala., L. Y. Sadler, Jr., Camden, Ala., William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen. of Ala., Gordon Madison, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., for other interested parties.

Before THORNBERRY, MORGAN and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied June 7, 1974.

PER CURIAM:

Litigation with regard to the Wilcox County, Alabama school system began in November of 1965. At that time, the then totally segregated system enrolled 4300 black and 1500 white children. The latest semi-annual report of the Wilcox County School Board (School Board) discloses that at the opening of the Fall 1973 session the system enrolled 3,733 black...

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