Mrs. Margaret Burnside v. James Byars

GEWIN, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs brought a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a preliminary injunction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1343 against officials of the Booker T. Washington High School of Philadelphia, Mississippi. It was alleged that plaintiffs’ children’s rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution were breached by school officials in that they denied to the children the right to wear “freedom buttons” while attending school. 1 Plaintiffs appeal from the order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi…