Robinson v. Shelby County Board of Education

McCREE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a District Court order approving, with minor modifications, the most recent desegregation plan proffered by appellee Board of Education. The original suit in this controversy was commenced on June 12, 1963 to compel the desegregation of the public schools within the district consisting of all Shelby County, Tennessee, outside the City of Memphis. This court recently was presented another aspect of this case in defendants’ appeal from a District Court order rejecting a plan submitted by the Board of Education prior to the 1969-70 school year. At the…