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HARKLESS v. SWEENY IND. SCH. DIST. OF SWEENY, TEXAS

Civ. A. No. 66-G-34.

388 F.Supp. 738 (1975)

Mildred HARKLESS et al., Plaintiffs, v. The SWEENY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT OF SWEENY, TEXAS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Texas, Galveston Division.

As Amended January 16, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Weldon H. Berry, Houston, Tex., Sanford D. Bishop, Jr., Columbus, Ga., and Gabrielle K. McDonald, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Grant Cook, Reynolds, White, Allen & Cook, Houston, Tex., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

NOEL, District Judge.

PREFACE

In the spring of 1965, defendant Sweeny Independent School District (hereinafter called the District) adopted a plan of complete school desegregation and, pursuant thereto, ordered the number of its faculty reduced for the 1966-67 school year. In effecting this reduction, the District did not offer reemployment to seventeen Negro teachers.

On May 23, 1966, twelve of the seventeen...

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