Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham Board of Education

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

Four Negro school children, by their parents and next friends, bring this class action, on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated, to test the constitutionality of the Alabama School Placement Law, 1 and to enjoin the Birmingham Board of Education, its members, agents, representatives and employees from enforcing said School Placement Law, and from refusing, “solely on the basis of race or color or resentment by others,” to permit the four plaintiff Negro children and others similarly situated to attend or transfer to a public school situated closer to their…