Michael and Cynthia Pride, Minors, by Their Mother and Next Friend Bulena Pride v. The Community School Board of Brooklyn, New York School District 18

TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction sought by a group of parents of black and other non-white children residing in Tilden Houses, a public housing development in Brooklyn, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, to require the Community School Board for District No. 18 to assign their children to schools within the district in accordance with past practice.

After a two day hearing in the Eastern District of New York, Jacob Mish-ler, Chief Judge, an order was entered on November 13, 1972 (1) finding no likelihood of…