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BROWN v. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 20, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA

Civ. A. No. 7747.

226 F.Supp. 819 (1963)

Millicent F. BROWN et al., Plaintiffs, v. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 20, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, a public body corporate, and Charles A. Brown, Chairman of School District No. 20, Charleston, South Carolina; and Thomas A. Carrere, Superintendent, Lawrence O'Hear Stoney, Leonard A. Mackey, John T. Welch, Mrs. Edwin A. Pearlstine, Mrs. W. Allan Moore, Jr., John C. Hawk, Jr., Members, Board of Trustees of School District No. 20, Charleston, South Carolina, Defendants, Mark Allen, a minor, by W. K. Allen, his father and next friend; and Barbara L. Bellows and George Bellows, Jr., minors, by their father and next friend George Bellows, Julia Jeanne Canfield, a minor, by Eugene C. Canfield, her father and next friend, and Elizabeth S. Stack and William F. Stack, Sr., their father and next friend, Intervenors.

United States District Court E. D. South Carolina, Charleston Division.

August 22, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew J. Perry, Lincoln C. Jenkins, Jr., Columbia, S. C., Constance Baker Motley, Jack Greenberg, Michael Meltsner, New York City, F. Henderson Moore, Benjamin Cooke, Charleston, S. C., for plaintiffs.

Huger Sinkler, Charles H. Gibbs, Charleston, S. C., A. T. Graydon, and D. W. Robinson, Columbia, S. C., for defendants.

Burnet R. Maybank, Charleston, S. C., and George Stephen Leonard, Washington, D. C., for intervenors.

MARTIN, District Judge.

This action was brought by thirteen1 Negro children and their parents on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated for an injunction enjoining the operation of the school system of School District Number 20 in Charleston County, South Carolina, on a racially segregated basis. Plaintiffs seek an order of this Court requiring that the plaintiffs here be allowed to enroll in the white school of their choice...

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