Legal Opinion
Josephine Goss v. Board of Education, City of Knoxville, Tennessee
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 10, 1969No. 18165PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SULLIVAN, Circuit Judge.
The District Court decision which we review, Goss v. Bd. of Education, 270 F.Supp. 903 (E.D.Tenn.1967), is the latest District Court consideration of the progress of desegregation of the schools of Knoxville, Tennessee. This lawsuit was started in 1959 when the school board of Knoxville was first ordered to desegregate its schools in obedience to Brown v. Bd. of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873 (1954). The plan first approved by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Judge Robert L. Taylor, presiding, is set out in…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Monroe v. Board of Commissioners of JacksonSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Raney v. Board of Education of Gould School DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Berry v. School Dist. of Benton HarborDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 1977
- ROBINSON, BY ROBINSON v. Shelby County Board of EducationDistrict Court, W.D. Tennessee · 1970
- Beckett v. School Board of the City of NorfolkDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 1969
- Deborah A. Northcross v. Board of Education of the Memphis, Tennessee, City SchoolsCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1970
- Kelley v. METROPOLITAN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON CTY., TENN.District Court, M.D. Tennessee · 1970
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