United States v. Board of Education of Lincoln County

ORDER

LAWRENCE, Chief Judge.

These two actions have been respectively brought by the United States Attorney General, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 2000c-6, and by certain Negro school children and their parents, as a class, seeking an injunction against the maintenance of a dual school system in Lincoln County, Georgia.

The main defendant in the two desegregation cases is the Lincoln County Board of Education, a five-man board created pursuant to law which has jurisdiction over the public schools in that County.

An evidentiary hearing was held at Augusta on April 7, 1969, at which the principal witness…