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REED v. RHODES

No. C-73-1300.

422 F.Supp. 708 (1976)

Robert Anthony REED, III, et al., Plaintiffs, v. James A. RHODES et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Ohio, E. D.

August 31, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Hardiman, Cleveland, Ohio, Nathaniel R. Jones, Gen. Counsel, NAACP, New York City, Thomas I. Atkins, Roxbury, Mass., for plaintiffs.

James E. Michael, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, for defendant Gov. James Rhodes and Atty. Gen., State of Ohio.

Mark O'Neil, Weston, Hurd, Fallon, Paisley & Howley, Cleveland, Ohio, Mary A. Lentz, Ohio Dept. of Ed., Columbus, Ohio, for defendant Ohio State Bd. of Ed. and Martin W. Essex, Supt. of Public Instruction, Ohio Dept. of Ed.

Charles F. Clarke, George I. Meisel, William C. Hartman, James P. Murphy, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, John H. Bustamante, Bustamante, Donohoe, Palmisano & Co., L. P. A., Cleveland, Ohio, for defendant Cleveland City Bd. of Ed. and its members, and Superintendent of the Cleveland City School Dist., Paul Briggs.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BATTISTI, Chief Judge.

During at least the last 20 years, patterns of racial isolation in the Cleveland public school system have become steadily more pronounced. This situation is illustrated by a review of the percentage of all students attending regular1 Cleveland Public schools whose school was a one-race2 school:

          1940:     88.37%
          1950...

                    
                    
                    

                        

                            

                                
                            

                            

                                

                                    
    
                                        
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