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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Lee v. Macon County Bd. of Ed.

3:63-cv-00604 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 1963

Closed Date: 1970

IntroductionThis case began on 1963 when a group of Black students and parents sought to desegregate the twenty public schools of Macon County, Alabama. At that time seventeen of the county’s schools were designated for Black children and three for white children. This was one of many such cases dealing with school desegregation on a school system-by-system basis. Soon after the case was filed, the court ordered the desegregation of Macon County’s schools. However, after interference from Gover…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
U.S. v. Jefferson County Bd. of Ed./Stout v. Jefferson County Bd. of Ed.

2:65-cv-00396 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 4, 1965

Case Ongoing

This is the case in which the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals took the firm position that "freedom of choice" plans could be legally insufficient to meet the constitutional obligations of a formerly de jure segregated school system to convert from "dual" to "unitary" schools. 372 F.2d 836 (1966) (Judge John Minor Wisdom), and that the Department of Health Education and Welfare's approach to school desegregation planning was appropriate. It stood in contrast to the opposite view taken by the lo…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Adams v. Rankin County Board of Education

3:67-cv-04156 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 1967

Case Ongoing

This is a school desegregation case that was filed on August 1, 1967 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Plaintiffs, black students and their families who resided in Rankin County, Mississippi, sought to integrate the Rankin County public schools. Renowned civil rights attorney Melvyn Leventhal was one of the attorneys who represented the plaintiffs.On September 26, 1967, Rankin County was permanently enjoined from discriminating on the basis of race in its publ…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District

63-22527 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: 1963

Closed Date: 1981

This school desegregation case was filed in 1963 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Plaintiffs, black students and their families, sought injunctive relief requiring the Jackson Municipal Separate School District to desegregate its public schools.In an unavailable 1964 district court opinion, District Judge Sidney C. Mize approved a desegregation plan proposed by the School District. The plaintiffs then appealed and argued that the School District's plan was no…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Carr v. Montgomery County Board of Education

2:64-02072 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 15, 1962

Closed Date: 1993

This desegregation case ran from 1964 to 1993, governing the schools in Montgomery County, Alabama, a school district that includes both the City of Montgomery and the surrounding county. On 6/15/1962, the plaintiffs, several school children, brought this action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama against the Montgomery County Board of Education, asking the court to enjoin the Board's practice of operating a dual school district. They were represented by, among others,…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Booker v. Special School District No. 1

4:71-cv-00832 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 1971

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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Lee and United States of America v. Macon County School Board (N.D. Ala. Case)

2:70-cv-00251 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: 1970

This Clearinghouse entry discusses the post 1970 proceedings in Lee v. Macon County, a seminal Alabama desegregation case. That case originated in the Middle District of Alabama and was transferred to a three-judge district court which supervised school desegregation across the state. However, after 1970, the statewide case was dissolved and desegregation cases in individual school districts were sent to the judicial districts that encompassed them. This Clearinghouse entry describes the Lee li…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
CODING IN PROCESS
USA v. School District of Omaha

8:73-cv-00320 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: 1973

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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
CODING IN PROCESS
US v. The State of Georgia and The Coweta County School District

1:69-cv-12972 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: 1969

None
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
CODING IN PROCESS
U.S and Thomas v. Wilcox County Board of Education

1:65-03934 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 22, 1965

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