Legal Opinion
Kelley v. Metropolitan County Board of Education
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
Decided May 20, 1980No. 2094, 2956PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
WISEMAN, District Judge.
The present posture of this case and this Court’s action thereon require a recitation of the tortuous twenty-five-year history of desegregation efforts in Metropolitan Nashville.
I. HISTORY OF NASHVILLE-DAVIDSON COUNTY DESEGREGATION PRIOR TO 1971
On September 23, 1955, plaintiff Robert W. Kelley filed this class action lawsuit to enforce Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873 (1954), decided the previous year, and to enjoin the defendant Board of Education of the City of Nashville from continuing to operate a segregated…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Milliken v. BradleySupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Hartzell v. ConnellCalifornia Supreme Court · 1984
- Bailey v. TrubyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1984
- Tasby v. WrightDistrict Court, N.D. Texas · 1981
- United States v. Board of Educ. of City of ChicagoDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1984
- Robert W. Kelley v. Metropolitan County Board of Education of Nashville and Davidson County, TennesseeCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1982
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