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WHEELER v. DURHAM CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION

Nos. C-54-D-60, C-116-D-60.

196 F.Supp. 71 (1961)

Warren H. WHEELER, a Minor, by J. H. Wheeler, his father and next friend, et al., Plaintiffs, v. DURHAM CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION a body politic in Durham County, North Carolina, Defendant. C. C. SPAULDING, III, a Minor, by C. C. Spaulding, Jr., his father and next friend, et al., Plaintiffs, v. DURHAM CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION, a body politic in Durham County, North Carolina, Defendant.

United States District Court M. D. North Carolina, Durham Division.

July 20, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Conrad O. Pearson, M. Hugh Thompson, William A. Marsh, Jr., F. B. McKissick and J. H. Wheeler, Durham, N. C., Jack Greenberg and Thurgood Marshall, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Spears, Spears & Powe, Durham, N. C., for defendant.

EDWIN M. STANLEY, Chief Judge.

These class actions, consolidated for trial, were commenced by the plaintiffs, members of the Negro race, against the Durham City Board of Education, to have declared the rights of the minor plaintiffs and the class of persons they represent to attend the public schools of the City of Durham without discrimination on account of race or color, and for injunctive relief. All the plaintiffs are citizens of the City of Durham, North Carolina...

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