Morgan v. Board of Education

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE GEORGE J. MORAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

This action was brought to enjoin the defendant school district from retaining the plaintiff, Angela Morgan, in kindergarten and to obtain a declaratory judgment that the plaintiff be entitled to attend the first grade. The Circuit Court of Jackson County, Illinois, granted both a temporary and permanent injunction enjoining the defendant from refusing to allow Angela Morgan to enroll in the first grade and ordered that she be admitted to the first grade. It is from that order this appeal was taken.

The facts in this case…