REYNOLDS v. ABBEVILLE CTY. SCH. DIST. NO. 60

No. 76-1565.

554 F.2d 638 (1977)

Cornell REYNOLDS, Appellant, v. ABBEVILLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 60, Robert H. Gettys, Administrative Superintendent of Abbeville County School District No. 60, Walter R. Hilley, C. H. Hawthorne, Duncan Carmichael, Sam Ferguson, James B. Jones, Jr., William M. Kay, Wallace Scott, S. F. Shepard and Charles W. Williams, Individually and as members of the Board of Trustees of Abbeville County School District No. 60, and John McDill, Erskine Link, James Ferguson, H. M. Laboon, David Dunlap, Perrin Anderson, Ronald Moss, William Brown and John Brickle, Individually and as members of the Abbeville County Board of Education, jointly and severally and the successors in the offices of each, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 11, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Christopher Coates, Columbia, S. C. (Laughlin McDonald, Neil Bradley, Atlanta, Ga., David Rubin, Nat. Ed. Ass'n, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellant.

Walter A. Reiser, Jr., Columbia, S. C. (Robert L. Hawthorne, Jr., Abbeville, S. C., on brief), for appellees.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and BUTZNER and FIELD, Circuit Judges.


BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

Cornell Reynolds appeals the judgment of the district court in favor of the superintendent and board of the Abbeville County School District. He claims that his demotion from a principalship during the desegregation of the school system in 1970 and his discharge from an administrative assistant position the following year were motivated by racial discrimination in violation of the thirteenth and fourteenth...

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