Robert L. Acree v. County Board of Education of Richmond County, Georgia, Ann Gunter Drummond, Intervenors

Despite an unpromising earlier history, 1 the dismantling of the dual school system in Richmond County, Georgia, proceeds, and the public schools there appear at present to function in a generally constitutional manner under the continuing surveillance of the district court. The present appeal is from an order approving attendance changes proposed by the school authorities in order, it is said, to avoid overcrowding and to eliminate double sessions in certain school plants.

In the order appealed from, the district court specifically found

that the proposed attendance changes are educationally…