Bush v. Orleans Parish School Board

In these proceedings, we consider again 1 the progress of desegregation in the public schools of the Parish of Orleans and the additional efforts made to interfere with that achievement. Be cause of what has been said and done by the government of Louisiana in all its branches, it becomes necessary to restate the fundamental principles that govern this controversy. Under the circumstances, they cannot be declared too often or too emphatically. These principles are:

1. That equality of opportunity to education through access to non-segregated public schools is a right secured by the…