Legal Opinion
McFerren v. County Board of Education of Fayette County
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 28, 1972No. 71-1206PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.
Appellant school board appeals from an order entered in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Western Division, requiring it to rehire 13 discharged school teachers with back pay.
In this case an all white school board in a Tennessee County with 75% black population was required by federal court order to unify its previously unconstitutionally separated black and white school systems. One of its responses was to discharge 22 teachers, 15 of them black and seven of them white. Only one of the white teachers discharged had more than two…
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