MAPP v. BD. OF EDUC. OF CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENN.

Civ. A. No. 3564.

630 F.Supp. 876 (1986)

James Jonathan MAPP, et al., Plaintiffs, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, S.D.

March 12, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Dinkins and Avon N. Williams, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., and Lowell Johnston, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Raymond B. Witt, Jr., Eugene N. Collins & Associates, Chattanooga, Tenn., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM

EDGAR, District Judge.

This school desegregation suit is now nearly 26 years old. After extensive litigation the Chattanooga Board of Education, at the direction of the Court, adopted an amended desegregation plan (herein the "Plan") on June 16, 1971. The goal of this Plan was to eliminate from the Chattanooga public schools all vestiges of state-imposed segregation and to create a unitary school system in which racial discrimination would be...

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