Warren H. Wheeler v. The Durham County Board of Education, a Body Politic

CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

These appeals are from orders entered in 1974 by the district court denying requests made by plaintiffs in 1972 for further injunctive relief with respect to desegregating the Durham City and County School systems. Both systems have been operating under plans approved by the district court in 1969 (County) and 1970 (City). The prior freedom-of-choice plans, 1 by then virtually condemned by the Supreme Court in Green v. County School Board, 391 U.S. 430, 88 S.Ct. 1689, 20 L.Ed.2d 716 (1968), 2 were abandoned in those years in favor of mandatory student assignments through…