UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Zandra PITTMAN, Minor Child By Her Parents and Next Friends, Andrew and Patricia PITTMAN; Geneva Harrell and Jimmy Harrell, Jr., Minor Children By Their Parents and Next Friends, Jimmie and Rose Mary Harrell, et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors, Appellants,
v.
The STATE of Mississippi, et al., Defendants-Appellees, and
Hattiesburg Municipal Separate School District, Defendant-Intervenor, Appellee.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 12, 1987.
January 12, 1987.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Nausead Stewart, Jackson, Miss., Norman J. Chachkin, William L. Robinson, Lawyers Comm. for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., Jere Krakoff, Pittsburg, Pa., for plaintiffs-intervenors, appellants.
Mark L. Gross, Atty., Salliann S.M. Dougherty, Educ. Opp. Lit. Sect., Civ. Rights Div., Wm. Bradford Reynolds, Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Brian K. Landsberg, Atty., Washington, D.C., for U.S.
Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., Sara E. DeLoach, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellees.
Moran M. Pope, III, Moran M. Pope, Jr., Hattiesburg, Miss., J.P. Coleman, Ackerman, Miss., for defendant-intervenor, appellee.
Before WISDOM, RUBIN, and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
For more than thirty years after Brown the elementary schools in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, have remained almost totally segregated. In 1970 the United States filed suit against the State of Mississippi and several State agencies and officials, seeking the desegregation of thirteen school districts. The Hattiesburg Municipal Separate School District (HMSSD) intervened as a defendant. The district...
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