Shirley Bivins v. Bibb County Board of Education and Orphanage for Bibb County

The district court held that the Bibb County Board of Education’s compliance with this Court’s last desegregation directive effectively transformed that county’s public school system into a unitary one. The plaintiffs-appellants’ motion for supplemental relief seeking the elimination of four all-black, thirteen predominantly black and several all-white elementary schools was, therefore, denied. 331 F.Supp. 9 (M.D.Ga.1971). We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

The en banc decision of this Court in Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District, 5 Cir. 1970, 419 F.2d 1211,…