Legal Opinion
Davis v. Board of School Comm'rs of Mobile Cty.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 20, 1971No. 436PublishedCited by 258 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
Petitioners in this case challenge as inadequate a school desegregation plan for Mobile County, Alabama. The county is large and populous, embracing 1,248 square miles and the city of Mobile. The school system had 73,500 pupils in 91 schools at the beginning of the 1969 academic year; approximately 58% of the pupils were white and 42% Negro. During the 1967-1968 school year, the system transported 22,000 pupils daily in over 200 school buses, both in the rural areas of the county and in the outlying areas of metropolitan Mobile.
The present desegregation plan evolved from one developed by the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Birdie Mae Davis, Appellants-Cross United States of America, Appellants-Cross v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, Appellees-CrossCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
3Cited by258 opinions
- Regents of the University of California v. BakkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Keyes v. School Dist. No. 1, DenverSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Dayton Board of Education v. BrinkmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Wright v. Council of EmporiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Hills v. GautreauxSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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