Jeffers v. Whitley

This is another school case. It comes here on the appeal of Negro plaintiffs, two of whom the District Court ordered admitted to the school of their choice. They complain, with justification^ that there was no defensible basis for withholding. judicial enforcement of the established rights of other individual plaintiffs or for the denial of general declarative and injunctive relief.

The action was originally instituted in December, 1956 by forty-three Negro children, attending schools in Caswell County, North Carolina, and their parents. They sought a general order requiring the School Board…