Legal Opinion
4 Fair empl.prac.cas. 762, 4 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 7829 Ira Mae Sparks v. Merritt Griffin, Individually
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 19, 1972No. 71-2747PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:
Prior to 1965, the Union Hill Independent School District, located in Upshur County, Texas, operated a fully segregated public school system consisting of two campuses: the all-white Union Hill campus and the all-black Bethlehem campus. After the introduction of a freedom-of-choice desegregation plan in the 1965-1966 academic year, the district’s schools were converted into a unitary pupil assignment system at the beginning of the 1968-1969 academic year with the abandonment of the Bethlehem campus and the assignment of all students, black and white, to the Union Hill…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Monroe v. PapeSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- McNeese v. Board of Education for Community Unit School District 187 CahokiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- Damico v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- United States v. Jefferson County Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
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3Cited by49 opinions
- Harless v. First National Bank in FairmontWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1982
- Sias v. City Demonstration AgencyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1978
- Walker v. Ford Motor Co.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1982
- EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SANDIA CORPORATION, a Corp., Defendant-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1980
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Kallir, Philips, Ross, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1976
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