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BUFORD v. MORGANTON CITY BD. OF EDUCATION

Civ. No. 523.

244 F.Supp. 437 (1965)

Arthur Baglis BUFORD, J. L. Coley, B. H. Sanders, Mrs. Louise Bell Hudgens, Miss Williene L. Barber, Mrs. Annie H. Penn, Mrs. Marian Bailey LeGrand, Haywood Homesley, Jr., Roy McCullough, and the North Carolina Teachers Association, a Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. The MORGANTON CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION, a Public Body Corporate, Defendant.

United States District Court W. D. North Carolina, Statesville Division.

August 23, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Conrad O. Pearson, Durham, N. C., Jack Greenberg, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., and Melvyn Zarr, New York City, J. LeVonne Chambers, Charlotte, N. C., and Ruben J. Dailey and Robert L. Harrell, Asheville, N. C., Eddie Tucker, Jackson, Miss., and Le Marquis De Jarmon, Durham, N. C., for plaintiffs.

Thomas M. Starnes and Sam J. Ervin, III, Morganton, N. C., for defendant.

CRAVEN, Chief Judge.

This is a civil action brought by nine Negro teachers and the North Carolina Teachers Association1 against the Morganton City Board of Education. The teachers and the Association seek to invoke the equitable jurisdiction of the court and allege that the School Board has denied reemployment as teachers to the individual plaintiffs and other Negro teachers, because of their being members of the Negro race, in violation...

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