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KELLEY v. METROPOLITAN CTY. BD. OF ED.

Nos. 2094, 2956.

492 F.Supp. 167 (1980)

Robert W. KELLEY, Individually and representative of the class v. METROPOLITAN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, et al. Henry C. MAXWELL, Jr., Individually and representative of the class v. METROPOLITAN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, et al.

United States District Court, M. D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

May 20, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Avon N. Williams, Jr., Richard H. Dinkins, Nashville, Tenn., Plaintiffs Intervenors, Carrol D. Kilgore, William E. Higgins, Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiff.

William R. Willis, Jr., Marian F. Harrison, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

WISEMAN, District Judge.

The present posture of this case and this Court's action thereon require a recitation of the tortuous twenty-five-year history of desegregation efforts in Metropolitan Nashville.

I. HISTORY OF NASHVILLE-DAVIDSON COUNTY DESEGREGATION PRIOR TO 1971

On September 23, 1955, plaintiff Robert W. Kelley filed this class action lawsuit to enforce Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U...

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