Brown v. Rippy

The suit was brought by Negro children of school age against the President and members of the Board of Trustees of the Dallas Independent School District and others for a declaratory judgment and an injunction. It had for its object, the entry of a judgment requiring the defendants to desegregate with all deliberate speed the schools under their jurisdiction, and to cease their practices of segregating plaintiffs in elementary and) *797high school education on account of race and color.

The claim was that the defendants, though obligated to do so, were conspiring to neglect to proceed as required…