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N. A. A. C. P. BY CAMPBELL v. GADSDEN COUNTY SCHOOL BD.

No. 81-5070.

691 F.2d 978 (1982)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, By its President Whit CAMPBELL, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GADSDEN COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD, Edward Fletcher, Cecil Butler, C. W. Harbin, Jr., Will I. Ramsey, Sr., Randolph Greene, as members of the Gadsden County School Board, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

November 15, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Spriggs & Henderson, Kent Spriggs, Tallahassee, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellants.

C. Graham Carothers, Tallahassee, Fla., for defendants-appellees.

Before KRAVITCH and HENDERSON, Circuit Judges, and MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:

This action was originally brought in October 1973 by black citizens of Gadsden County, Florida. Alleging that the at-large election system for electing school board members unconstitutionally diluted the black vote, plaintiffs sought relief under the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, as well as under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1971, 1973, 1981, and 1983. The attack on the school board election...

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