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HENRY v. CLARKSDALE MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCH. DIST.

No. 76-1207.

579 F.2d 916 (1978)

Rebecca E. HENRY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CLARKSDALE MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 7, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvyn R. Leventhal, Jack Greenberg, New York City, David Norman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Rights Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Semmes Luckett, Clarksdale, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before COLEMAN, TJOFLAT, and FAY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This is the fifth time this case has been before the Court in some form.1 In 1964, the plaintiffs initially filed suit, seeking the elimination of racial segregation in the Clarksdale Municipal Separate School District, being the first desegregation case filed in the Northern District of Mississippi. The School District proposed to eliminate school segregation by dividing the district into attendance zones. At the time, this...

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