Legal Opinion
Tallulah Morgan v. John J. Kerrigan
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 12, 1975No. 74--1251PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Chief Judge.
Two decades after Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873 (1954), the refractory issue of school desegregation for Boston reaches this court. It reaches us after scores of cases have been litigated and decided in the South, where state laws and constitutions had effectuated a dual school system along racial lines. Perhaps more relevantly, it reaches us after a number of decisions affecting northern cities where segregation had often resulted from local practices rather than laws. 1 Most significantly, this case comes to us (and the district…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- 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
- Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Cooper v. AaronSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
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3Cited by73 opinions
- Tallulah Morgan v. John J. Kerrigan, Boston Home and School Association, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant, Kevin H. White, Etc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1976
- Wessmann v. GittensCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1998
- Crawford v. Board of EducationCalifornia Supreme Court · 1976
- United States v. Yonkers Board of EducationDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1985
- McRedmond v. WilsonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1976
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