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ACREE v. DRUMMOND

Civ. A. No. 1179.

336 F.Supp. 1275 (1972)

Robert L. ACREE et al., Plaintiffs, v. Ann Gunter DRUMMOND et al., Plaintiffs in Intervention, v. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION OF RICHMOND COUNTY, GEORGIA, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Georgia, Augusta Division.

January 13, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Ruffin, Jr., Augusta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

O. Torbitt Ivey, Jr., Augusta, Ga., for intervenors.

Franklin H. Pierce, Augusta, Ga., for defendants.

ORDER

LAWRENCE, Chief Judge.

This case has been around since 1964. I came into it in the Fall of 1968.

At that time a freedom of choice plan was in effect in Richmond County schools. The total enrollment of white and black children in 1967-1968 was approximately 35,750 students. Of 12,250 Negro students in the school population 5.5% chose to attend previously all-white schools. With one exception no white student had exercised freedom of choice to...

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