Leoles v. Landers

Bus,sell, Chief Justice.

Dorothy Leoles, a minor child twelve years old, by her father as next friend, instituted mandamus proceedings directed to the members of the Board of Education of the City of Atlanta, to compel her reinstatement as a student at the Crew Street School, one of the schools belonging to the Atlanta Public School System, and under the supervision and control of the respondents. The respondents “have inaugurated in the school system of the City of Atlanta an exercise or ceremony during which all pupils of the said schools are required to salute the United States flag.” This…