George Robert Boykins, Etc., United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor v. Fairfield Board of Education

GEE, Circuit Judge;

As the Fairfield, Alabama, school case comes before us for the seventh time,1 the great issúes of segregation and integration which were, for our circuit, largely fought out on this very field2 have departed like the Captains and the Kings, to be replaced by the petulance which this record reveals and the spectre of resegregation by white flight from the school system. As the trial court observed:

The Court has had many hearings in the Fairfield School Case. When the hearings began there was a white majority in the school system. There is now a black majority and this…