Case: Green v. Connally

Parents of black Mississippi public school children alleged in this class action that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was supporting the maintenance of segregated schooling by providing tax benefits to discriminatory private schools and their donors. The court granted the plaintiffs a permanent injunction that restricted the IRS from providing tax benefits to these schools. 

On December 20, 1971, the Supreme Court summarily affirmed the decision in Coit v. Green, 404 U.S. 997 (1971). This was not the end of the Green litigation, however. On July 23, 1976, the Green plaintiffs reopened the case, alleging that the IRS was failing to comply with the injunction. The case would later be consolidated with another school desegregation case, Wright v. Miller, 480 F. Supp. 790 (D.D.C. 1979). (See related cases).