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DAVIS v. COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY

Civ. A. No. 1333.

149 F.Supp. 431 (1957)

Dorothy E. DAVIS et al. v. COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY et al.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

Order Filed March 26, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oliver W. Hill, Martin A. Martin, Spottswood W. Robinson, III, Richmond, Va., Thurgood Marshall, Robert L. Carter, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Hunton, Williams, Gay, Moore & Powell, T. Justin Moore, Archibald G. Robertson, John W. Riely, T. Justin Moore, Jr., Richmond, Va., for County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia, and Thomas J. McIlwaine.

J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Virginia, Henry T. Wickham, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., for Commonwealth of Virginia.

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

This case originated in the Richmond Division upon the filing of a complaint on May 21, 1951. The declared object of the complaint was, in substance, to obtain a declaratory judgment holding that segregation of pupils in the public schools in the county by races constituted discrimination in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. There were also allegations concerning the inequality of school facilities...

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