James v. Duckworth

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

This is another chapter involving the legal skirmishes confronting this and appellate courts following the May 17, 1954, decision in Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873, as the same applies to the public schools of the City of Norfolk 1 . To review the history of efforts to avoid the effect of the mandate in Brown would be needless repetition. The background of the present controversy is fully disclosed by reference to the authorities cited in the footnote.

On January 19, 1959, the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia rendered…