Choctaw County Board of Education v. United States

The substantive issue in this case concerns the district court’s order that the School Board of Choctaw County, Alabama, close the Melvin School, an all-Negro school.

I

The record supports the district court’s finding that:

The physical facilities, equipment, and instructional materials available at the all-Negro Melvin School are inferior to the white and predominantly white elementary schools of Choctaw County. This school had, to wit, 81 students and three teachers in the 1966-1967 school year. On September 1, 1967, only two teachers had been employed although there were plans to secure one…