Legal Opinion
Mapp v. Board of Education
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 8, 1963No. Nos. 15038, 15039PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
O’SULLIVAN, Circuit Judge.
This school desegregation case involves the public schools of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The plaintiffs, a group of Negro public school children of Chattanooga, appearing by their parents, as next friends, filed their complaint on April 6, 1960, asking an injunction to compel the desegregation of that city’s public schools. The Chattanooga schools were at that time admittedly segregated. In its answer, defendant school board admitted its duty to desegregate “with all deliberate speed,” Brown v. Board of Education, 349 U.S. 294, 75 S.Ct. 753, 99 L.Ed. 1083, but answered…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Plessy v. FergusonSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Karen Renee Augustus, a Minor, by Charles A. Augustus, Her Father, and Next Friend v. The Board of Public Instruction of Escambia County, FloridaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
- Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1953
- Sweatt v. PainterSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
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