Legal Opinion
Hull v. Quitman County Board of Education
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 2, 1993No. 91-1903PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
When the school board of Quitman County, Mississippi, voted unanimously to close its only remaining public school with a significant white student population, both black and white parents of students at the school complained. Their school, Crowder Elementary and Junior High, was the most academically proficient and racially balanced school in the district at that time. It was also by far the smallest school in a district chafing from serious financial problems. The district court refused to enjoin Crowder from being closed. The question before us is whether the…
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