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BECKETT v. SCHOOL BOARD OF CITY OF NORFOLK, VA.

Civ. A. No. 2214.

181 F.Supp. 870 (1959)

Leola Pearl BECKETT, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, v. SCHOOL BOARD OF THE CITY OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, et al., Defendants.

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

May 8, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor J. Ashe and J. Hugo Madison, Norfolk, Va., Spottswood W. Robinson, III, Richmond, Va., Oliver W. Hill, Richmond, Va., Joseph A. Jordan, Jr., Norfolk, Va., for plaintiffs.

Leigh D. Williams, W. R. C. Cocke, Leonard H. Davis, City Atty., Norfolk, Va., Albertis S. Harrison, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Va., Walter E. Rogers, Richmond, Va., for defendants.

WALTER HOFFMAN, District Judge.

This case is again before the Court following the opinion of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit filed on October 2, 1958. School Board of City of Norfolk v. Beckett, 4 Cir., 260 F.2d 18. As to the admission of 17 Negro children into previously all-white schools, the action of the School Board in granting the applications and the procedure adopted by the Court was affirmed. As...

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