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WHITE v. DOUGHERTY COUNTY BD. OF ED.

Civ. A. No. 76-29Alb.

431 F.Supp. 919 (1977)

John E. WHITE, Plaintiff, v. DOUGHERTY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Georgia, Albany Division.

March 27, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Myer, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff.

Jesse W. Walters, Albany, Ga., for defendants.

Before MORGAN, Circuit Judge, BOOTLE, Senior District Judge, and OWENS, District Judge.

OWENS, District Judge:

In 1965 Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act to eliminate the racial discrimination in voting that Congress believed to still exist in a minority of the states of these United States, chiefly those in the traditional South. As contemplated, only eleven states were brought within the coverage1 of the Act—South Carolina, Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia, twenty-six counties in North...

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