Kenneth W. Adams v. Rankin County Board of Education

In this school desegregation case we are called upon to issue rulings with respect to five of the “sextet of indicia —student bodies, faculty, staff, transportation, extracurricular activities, and facilities,” Carr v. Montgomery County Board of Education, 5 Cir., 1970, 429 F.2d 382, applicable in such cases. As usual, the record which faces us for use in our required determination is a compendium of proposal and compromise— illustrative of the efforts of all concerned to obtain the constitutionally required unitary school system in the most expedient and least obstructive manner. Recognizing…