Robinson v. Vollert

MEMORANDUM OPINION

NOEL, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiffs, black students and their parents, filed this action on August 18, 1959, to obtain declaratory and injunctive relief requiring the Galveston Inde pendent School District (hereafter called “GISD” or “the District”) to administer its schools without regard to the race of its students. On January 23, 1961, the Court entered an agreed order permanently enjoining the District, its Superintendent and Board of Trustees, from discriminating on the basis of race. That order required the implementation of a “stairstep” freedom of choice…