Legal Opinion
B. Lee Allen v. The Asheville City Board of Education, a Public Body Corporate
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 2, 1970No. 14497PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:
This is another school case, but a distinctive one. In Asheville, North Carolina, there are neither black schools nor white schools, just schools. Green v. County School Board of New Kent County, Virginia, 391 U.S. 430, 88 S.Ct. 1689, 20 L.Ed.2d 716 (1968). The Ashe-ville City Board of Education operates 12 schools, the characteristics of which are set out in the margin. 1 According to the Chairman of the Board, the purpose of the school board’s plan, approved by the district court, was to “eliminate the all-white school” and to “eliminate all segregated schools and to…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Cooper v. AaronSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Griffin v. School Bd. of Prince Edward Cty.Supreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Alexander v. Holmes County Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by25 opinions
- School Committee of Springfield v. Board of EducationMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1972
- Evans v. BuchananDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1978
- Kathy Sue Johnson, Etc., and Darcel Milton, Etc. v. Board of Education of the City of ChicagoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1979
- Mims v. Duval County School BoardDistrict Court, M.D. Florida · 1971
- Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond, VirginiaDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 1971
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