United States of America, Dedra Estell Overton, Intervenors-Appellants v. Texas Education Agency (Austin Independent School District)

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

Seven years ago, seventeen years after Brown, 1 the Attorney General of the United States initiated this tri-ethnic school desegregation suit under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000c-6. Nothing was being done in Austin to desegregate the schools. The district court held that the Austin Independent School District (AISD) had not discriminated against blacks or Mexican-Americans. This Court heard the appeal from that decision en banc, along with Cisneros v. Corpus Christi Independent School District, 5 Cir., 1972, 467 F.2d 142, cert. denied, 1973, 413 U.S.…