Legal Opinion
NAACP v. Allen
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 19, 1974No. 72-1796PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge:, This class action suit charging Walter L. Allen,1 Director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety (DPS), and John S. Frazer, Director of the Alabama Department of Personnel, with unconstitutionally excluding Negroes from employment in the DPS was instituted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on behalf of its members and all similarly situated blacks in the state of Alabama. The NAACP was joined in this cause by Phillip Paradise, Jr., who intervened individually and on behalf of the class, and by the United States, which was…
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