Northcross v. Board of Education, Memphis City Schools

MEMORANDUM DECISION

ROBERT M. McRAE, Jr., District Judge.

This Memorandum Decision pertains to the most recent hearing in this twelve-year-old case which was filed by the original plaintiffs as a class action seeking equal protection of the laws by the desegregation of the defendant school system. The defendant system had maintained racially separate public schools contrary to the holding of Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873 (1954).

For the purpose of this ruling, it is not necessary to delineate in detail the early proceedings in this case. Suffice it to say,…