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LEMON v. BOSSIER PARISH SCHOOL BOARD

Civ. A. No. 10687.

240 F.Supp. 709 (1965)

Ura Bernard LEMON, Sandra Lemon, Brenda Lemon, William H. Lemon, Jr., Tony Lemon, Infants, by their parents and next friends, William H. Lemon and Mrs. Nettie J. Lemon, et al., v. The BOSSIER PARISH SCHOOL BOARD and Emmett Cope, Superintendent of Schools. The United States of America, Intervenor.

United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division.

April 13, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse N. Stone, Jr., Shreveport, La., Norman C. Amaker, Jack Greenberg, and John Walker, New York City, for plaintiffs.

J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., Johnston & Johnston, Shreveport, La., Louis H. Padgett, Jr., Dist. Atty. for the 26th Judicial Dist., Bossier City, La., Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen. of the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, La., William P. Schuler, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, La., for defendants.

Nicholas de B. Katzenbach, Atty. Gen., Burke Marshall, Asst. Atty. Gen., St. John Barrett, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Edward L. Shaheen, U. S. Atty., Edward V. Boagni, Asst. U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., for intervenor.

BEN C. DAWKINS, Jr., Chief Judge.

Here the parents of eight Negro children, suing on behalf of these children and others similarly situated, seek a prohibitory injunction restraining the Bossier Parish School Board and its Superintendent, Emmett Cope, from: (1) denying minor plaintiffs admittance to white schools; (2) operating a bi-racial school system and assigning students to schools with regard to race; (3) maintaining dual school zones or attendance area lines...

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