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BASSETT v. ATLANTA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

Civ. A. No. 1550.

347 F.Supp. 1191 (1972)

Houston BASSETT v. ATLANTA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Texas, Marshall Division.

August 22, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Watts, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff.

Charles E. Thompson, Atlanta, Tex., Franklin Jones, Jr., Marshall, Tex., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JUSTICE, District Judge.

When desegregation came to the Atlanta Independent School District in the fall of the 1970-71 school year, Houston Bassett, the black high school principal of the formerly all-black Booker T. Washington High School, was dismissed for failure to sign a contract that he claims forced him to accept reassignment to a position not equal in status or responsibility...

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