Norris v. State Council of Higher Education

BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiffs, black faculty members and students of Virginia State College and black high school students, complain that Virginia is still operating a racially identifiable dual system of higher educa tion and that escalation of predominantly white Richard Bland College from a two-year institution to a four-year college will frustrate the efforts of its neighbor, predominantly black Virginia State College, to desegregate. They seek to enjoin the escalation of Bland, to require its ultimate merger with Virginia State and to require state officials to prepare a plan for…