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HARKLESS v. SWEENY INDEPENDENT SCH. DIST. OF SWEENY, TEX.

Civ. A. No. 66-G-34.

300 F.Supp. 794 (1969)

Mildred HARKLESS, Alice Mae Jones, John P. Jones, Robert C. Woodard, Yarbough B. Kennedy, Willie L. Dotson, Florence Jones, Lillian F. Jammer, Benjamin F. Leviston and Velma L. Shelby, Plaintiffs, v. The SWEENY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT OF SWEENY, TEXAS, Fred Miller, Superintendent, Dr. Fletcher Hester, Weldon Bailey, E. H. Wallace, Tom B. Mays and E. N. Windler, Board Members, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Galveston Division.

June 6, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, Conrad K. Harper, William B. Turner and W. Haywood Burns, of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., New York City, Weldon H. Berry, Houston, Tex., and Thomas H. Dent, Galveston, Tex., of Dent, King, Cromwell and Wycliff, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Grant Cook, of Reynolds, White, Allen & Cook, Houston, Tex., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

NOEL, District Judge.

1. Preface

After its adoption of a plan of complete school desegregation in the spring of 1966, defendant Sweeny Independent School District ordered the number of its faculty reduced for the school year 1966-67. In effecting the reduction, seventeen Negro teachers were not offered reemployment. Twelve of these brought this action for injunctive relief and money damages, alleging violation...

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