Legal Opinion
McNeese v. Board of Education for Community Unit School District 187 Cahokia
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 3, 1963No. 480PublishedCited by 951 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
This suit, which invokes the jurisdiction of the District Court under the Civil Rights Act, is brought to vindicate the rights of plaintiffs who are Negro students in the Illinois public school system. The complaint alleges that Chenot School, St. Clair County, was built and its attendance area boundaries drawn in 1957 so as to make it exclusively a Negro school. It alleges that due to overcrowded conditions in an adjacent' school, Centreville', which is in the same school district, all fifth and sixth grade classes in that school (containing 97% white students) were transferred to Chenot and…
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