Legal Opinion
Beckett v. School Board of the City of Norfolk
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided December 30, 1969No. Civ. A. 2214PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
WALTER E. HOFFMAN, Chief Judge.
Fourteen years following the implementing decision in Brown v. Board of Education, 349 U.S. 294, 75 S.Ct. 753, 99 L.Ed. 1083 (1955), the courts, litigants, school children and parents remain confused with respect to the constitutional requirements touching the desegregation or integration of public schools. That Brown and the later cases have established the clear duty to operate a unitary school system cannot be doubted. Many problems arise in connection with the interpretation of the mandates emanating from judicial decisions as applied to the local…
2Cases cited47 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Loving v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- 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
- Plessy v. FergusonSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
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3Cited by14 opinions
- San Francisco Unified School District v. JohnsonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1971
- Carolyn Bradley and Michael Bradley, Infants, by Minerva Bradley, Their Mother and Next Friend v. The School Board of the City of Richmond, VirginiaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1972
- Robert W. Kelley and Henry C. Maxwell, Jr. v. Metropolitan County Board of Education of Nashville and Davidson County, TennesseeCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1970
- Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond, VirginiaDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 1970
- Carlotta Mozelle Brewer v. The School Board of the City of Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America v. The School Board of the City of Norfolk, VirginiaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1970
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