Legal Opinion
Green v. County School Board of New Kent County
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 27, 1968No. 695PublishedCited by 1,273 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
The question for decision is whether, under all the circumstances here, respondent School Board’s adoption of a “freedom-of-choice” plan which allows a pupil to choose his own public school constitutes adequate compliance with the Board’s responsibility “to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis . . . .” Brown v. Board of Education, 349 U. S. 294, 300-301 (Brown II).
Petitioners brought this action in March 1965 seeking injunctive relief against respondent’s continued maintenance of an alleged racially segregated school system. New Kent County is a…
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