Legal Opinion
Little Rock School District v. Pulaski County Special School District No. 1
District Court, E.D. Arkansas
Decided April 13, 1984No. LR-C-82-866PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
HENRY WOODS, District Judge.
I
DESEGREGATION LITIGATION IN THE THREE DISTRICTS
A. THE LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT
Nothing better illustrates the failure of the separate but equal doctrine 1 than the school situation in Pulaski County, Arkansas in 1930. There were 2500 black students in the Pulaski County School District, which embraced all of Pulaski County outside Little Rock and North Little Rock. Twelve of these students were attending senior high school. Eight were in the tenth grade, four in the eleventh and none in the twelfth. There was one black high school (if such it…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Marbury v. MadisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1803
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Plessy v. FergusonSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
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3Cited by23 opinions
- Little Rock School District v. Pulaski County Special School District No. 1Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1985
- Patterson v. MasemCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1985
- The Goldsboro City Board of Education v. The Wayne County Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1984
- Little Rock School District and Pulaski County Special School District v. State of ArkansasCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1997
- Patterson v. MasemCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1985
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