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AUGUSTUS v. BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

No. 19408.

306 F.2d 862 (1962)

Karen Renee AUGUSTUS, a Minor, by Charles A. Augustus, her father, and next friend, et al., Appellants, v. The BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 24, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Wilson, Pensacola, Fla., Constance Baker Motley, Jack Greenberg, and Derrick A. Bell, Jr., New York City, for appellants.

J. Edwin Holsberry, of Holsberry & Emmanuel, William Fisher, of Fisher & Hepner, Bert Lane, of Beggs, Lane, Daniel, Middlebrooks & Gaines, Richard H. Merritt, Pensacola, Fla., for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and RIVES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment modifying and approving what was proposed as a plan for the desegregation of the public schools operated under the supervision of The Board of Public Instruction of Escambia County, Florida. Pensacola is the County's largest city. The school population of the County totals approximately 37,000, of which about 28,521 are white and 8,557 Negro. In Pensacola the schools are divided into elementary, junior high, and...

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