Derek Jerome Singleton, Minor, by Mrs. Edna Marie Singleton, His Mother the Next Friend v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is the precipitate of three earlier appeals by Negro parents of children seeking desegregation of public schools in Jackson, Mississippi. The action was filed in March 1963. The first appeal resulted from the district court’s dismissal of the action for failure of the plaintiffs to exhaust administrative remedies. We reversed, with directions that the district court give prompt consideration to the plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction. Evers v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District, 5 Cir. 1964, 328 F.2d 408.

On remand, the district court,…