Legal Opinion
Bossier Parish School Board v. Ura Bernard Lemon
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 6, 1967No. 22675PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
This Court has had to deal with a variety of reasons that school boards have managed to dredge up to rationalize their denial of the constitutional right of Negro school children to equal educational opportunities with white children. This ease presents a new and bizzare excuse. Here the alleged reason for the admitted discrimination is that the Negro children are “federal children”; they are children of parents in uniform who are stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base. Barksdale is a United States defense base in Bossier Parish — a federal enclave. The hair-splitting…
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