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Alta Oveta Mims v. The Duval County School Board

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided August 16, 1971No. 30418PublishedCited by 29 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BELL, Circuit Judge:

Duval County is the thirteenth largest school system in the nation. It is comprised of 137 schools with 122,549 students (1970-71 school term), in a system having a land area of 840 square miles. The student racial ratio is 72 per cent white and 28 per cent black. The black student population is largely concentrated in the core area of the system. The defendant school board devised a plan of desegregation to convert the formerly segregated system into a unitary system in keeping with the teaching of Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 1971, 402 U.S. 1, 91…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  2. Lee v. Macon County Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
  3. Arlam Carr v. Montgomery County Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
  4. Lavon Wright v. The Board of Public Instruction of Alachua County, FloridaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
  5. Marcus Gordon v. Jefferson Davis Parish School BoardCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971

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3Cited by29 opinions

  1. United States v. Eric HallCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
  2. Tallulah Morgan v. John J. Kerrigan, Boston Home and School Association, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant, Kevin H. White, Etc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1976
  3. Jose Cisneros v. Corpus Christi Independent School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
  4. School Committee of Springfield v. Board of EducationMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1972
  5. Pete D. Arvizu v. Waco Independent School District, Patricia Ann Baisey v. The Board of Trustees of the Waco Independent School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974

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