Whitmyer v. Lincoln Parish School Board

DAWKINS, District Judge.

Plaintiff, alleging himself to be a colored schoolteacher of Negro blood, permanently employed by the defendant school board, brings this suit as a class action under Rule 23(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A. following section 723c, for declaratory judgment. He charges that, although equally qualified with white teachers, he and others of his race have been discriminated against in the salaries and compensation paid them as compared with those paid white teachers, out of public school funds. Defendants are the school board for Lincoln Parish and…