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YARBROUGH v. HULBERT-WEST MEMPHIS SCH. DIST. NO. 4, ARK.

Civ. A. No. J-65-C-8.

329 F.Supp. 1059 (1971)

Delois YARBROUGH, a Minor, age 15 and Thel Yarbrough, a Minor, age 13, by and through their father and next friend, B. J. Yarbrough, Plaintiffs, v. The HULBERT-WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 4 OF WEST MEMPHIS, ARKANSAS, a Corporation, et al., Defendants. Delois YARBROUGH et al., Plaintiffs, v. The HULBERT-WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 4 OF WEST MEMPHIS, ARKANSAS, a Corporation, et al., Defendants. Ricky Yarbrough, a Minor, age 10, and Maurice Yarbrough, a Minor, age 6, by their father and next friend, B. J. Yarbrough, et al., Applicants for Intervention.

United States District Court, E. D. Arkansas, Jonesboro Division.

July 23, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Howard, Jr., Pine Bluff, Ark., Jack Greenberg, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., New York City, for plaintiffs.

G. Ross Smith and Robert V. Light, Smith, Williams, Friday, Eldredge & Clark, Little Rock, Ark., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

EISELE, District Judge.

The Hulbert-West Memphis School District No. 4 of Crittenden County, Arkansas, comprises about 105 square miles of that county, including West Memphis, a city having a population of some 25,000. The area outside West Memphis but within the district has characteristics varying from rural to semi-suburban.

This litigation was initiated in 1965 in an effort to disestablish the dual system of schools the district...

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