Legal Opinion
Davis v. County School Board
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided March 7, 1952No. Civ. A. 1333PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRYAN, District Judge.
Prince Edward is a county of 15,000 people in the southern part of Virginia. Slightly more than one-half of its inhabitants are Negroes. They compose 59% of the county school population. At the high school plane the average pupil attendance is 386 colored, 346 white. For themselves and their classmates, a large number of these Negro students, their parents, or guardians now demand that their county school board and school superintendent refrain from further observance of the mandate of section 140 of the Constitution of Virginia and its statutory counterpart 1 , the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Gong Lum v. RiceSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- Cumming v. Richmond County Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1899
- Briggs v. ElliottDistrict Court, E.D. South Carolina · 1951
- Carr v. Corning, Superintendent of Public Schools Browne Junior High School Parent-Teacher Ass'n v. MagdeburgerCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1950
3Cited by22 opinions
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- Davis v. COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF PRINCE EDWARD CTY., VA.District Court, E.D. Virginia · 1956
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