UNITED STATES v. HINDS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD

Nos. 28030 & 28042.

516 F.2d 974 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HINDS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD et al., Defendants-Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COVINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 21, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Greenberg, New York City, Melvyn R. Leventhal, Jackson, Miss., David L. Norman, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Thomas M. Keeling, Civ. Rights Div., U.S. Dept of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S.

Aubrey A. Calhoun, Mt. Olive, Miss., for Hinds County.

Before BELL, THORNBERRY and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

The Covington County School District was desegregated under our order of November 7, 1969. United States v. Hinds County School Board, 5 Cir., 1969, 423 F.2d 1264. It was one of a large group of school districts covered by the same order. At the time it had 1,998 white students and 1,629 black students in attendance. On April 15, 1975, there were 1,831 white students and 1,301 black students in the system. Their...

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