Legal Opinion
Derek Jerome Singleton, Minor, by Mrs. Edna Marie Singleton, His Mother and Next Friend v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 22, 1965No. 22527_1PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge.
The time has come for footdragging public school boards to move with celerity toward desegregation. 1 Since May 17, 1954, public school boards throughout the country have known that they must de segregate their schools. 2 And as the law moved with rising tempo to meet changing conditions, school boards might have ■foreseen that further delays would pile up rather than spread their nettlesome problems. This Court has urged school authorities to grasp the nettle now. We have put them on notice that, “The rule has become: the later the start, the shorter the time allowed…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Briggs v. ElliottDistrict Court, E.D. South Carolina · 1955
- Alfred Avery, Jr., a Minor, by His Mother and Next Friend, (Mrs.) Alfred Avery v. Wichita Falls Independent School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1957
- Jerry L. Lockett v. Board Of Education Of Muscogogee County School District, GeorgiaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1965
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3Cited by61 opinions
- United States v. Jefferson County Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Willie B. Brooks v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Lee v. MacOn County Board of EducationDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 1967
- Nazareth Gates v. John Collier, Superintendent of the Mississippi State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
- Henry J. Kirksey, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Board of Supervisors of Hinds County, Mississippi, DefendantsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
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