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COPPEDGE v. FRANKLIN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION

Civ. No. 1796.

273 F.Supp. 289 (1967)

Harold Douglas COPPEDGE, a minor, by his father and next friend, Rev. Luther Coppedge, et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, by Ramsey Clark, Attorney General, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. The FRANKLIN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, a public body corporate, Warren W. Smith, Superintendent, Mrs. T. H. Dickens, Chairman, Jones H. Winston, Albert C. Fuller, Lloyd A. West, Horace W. Baker, members, Franklin County Board of Education, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. North Carolina, Raleigh Division.

August 21, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. LeVonne Chambers, Charlotte, N. C., Conrad O. Pearson, Durham, N. C., Jack Greenberg, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., New York City, for plaintiffs.

Ramsey Clark, Atty. Gen., by Frank E. Schwelb, Atty., Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-intervenor.

Robert H. Cowen, U. S. Atty., Raleigh, N. C., E. F. Yarborough, Charles M. Davis, Louisburg, N. C., Irvin B. Tucker, Jr., Raleigh, N. C., for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

BUTLER, Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs, Negro school children in Franklin County, North Carolina, instituted this class action on December 8, 1965, pursuant to 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983, on their own behalf and on behalf of other Negro children similarly situated, to desegregate the Franklin County School system. The complaint alleged in susbtance that the Franklin County Board of Education was operating...

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