Plaintiffs' Brief
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March 24, 1969
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
CHARLOTTE DIVISION
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THE CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG BOARD
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PLAINTIFFS' BRIEF
This proceeding was initially instituted by plaintiffs on
January 12, 1965, seeking an order for desegregation of the public
schools of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System. An order was
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lother plan for desegregation of the schools since the plan now
being followed by the Board fails to disestablish the racially
segregated and racially identifiable schools in the System.
Plaintiffs further seek injunctive relief against the disparities
lexistin ng in the Negro and poor schools in general, relief against
llthe continued use of freedom of choice as now practiced by the
[poaza, and relief against the continued location and construction |
log schools in a manner which perpetuates racially segregated and |
racially identifiable schools. Plaintiffs also seek further in-
unctive relief against the continued racial employment and as-
signment of teachers in the System.
> The natter was heard by the Court on March 10, 11, 12, 13 and
17. Following the hearing, the Court directed that counsel sub-
mit proposed findings and briefs in support of their respective
positions. This brief is being submitted by plaintiffs pursuant
Statement of the Case
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board operates 107 public schools,
76 elementary schools, 20 junior high schools and ll senior high (Te 8
schools. There are approximately 82,314 students in the School
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System, 26,630 Negro and 58,684 white. The System has approximater ‘
ly 3,613 terchers in the School System, 903 of whom are Negro.
Of the 76 elementary schools, 15 are all-Negro, 32 are more
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are all-Negro and 6 are more than 92% white. The segregation of
|| students in the schools clearly results from the use of geographic
attendance zones in a community with clearly defined and segregated
racial housing.
The City of Charlotte has approximately 65,750 Negroes and
197,250 whites. 98% of the Negro residents reside west of the
line running north and south along Tryon Street and then along
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. ' | Southern Railway. White residents reside principally in the east-
ern part of the City. It is clear that this racial housing pat-~
tern has resulted from private and public racial discriminatory policies and practices. Irrespective, however, of the contribut-
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| Negro area and a white area within the City.
Prior to 1954, and by the Board's admission until 1964, all
|| schools within the System were operated on a racially segregated
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asis, with Negro students, teachers and school personnel ass.gned
| to all-Negro schools and white students, teachers and school per-
| eonnel assigned to white schools. Schools were planned and lo-
| cated so as to perpetuate these racially discriminatory practices.
I'ven subsequent to the Court oxder in 1365, the Board constructed
17 new schools which havebeen located in aress resulting in all-
rr} , UL \ JEG T TTY. ew 8 a " 223 LE dud pe = non & . white or all-Negro student bodies. In addition, scme student - aq $ % ~ N Be — TS wm pe np wn Bn ~ - vy jy - Fy a “ Fg =~ - bodies have been re-segregated through the use of freedom of
| choice which permits white students assigned to predominantly
Negro schools and Negro students assigned to predominantly white
| schools to transfer out.
The location of schools and use of geographic attendance
zones as established by the Board has tended to promote homogene-~
ous grouping of students in the various schools, with principally
ols and white students 3 O Negro students attending all-Negxrc sch
attending all-white schools. These practices have further pro-
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in certain schools and students fromrore affluent families in
other ‘schools. Notable disparity exists between the white and £ffluent and less affluent schools. Pp
Negro schools and between the
fees for needed supplies and supplementary material. A further
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State which requires that these schools use funds allotted for
other purposes in order to purchase textbook materials. Noted
| disparities also exist in school buildings, in school materials |
and supplies and in the curriculum, particularly in the Junior
|| high school and high school level. Many of these disparities
would be corrected by a greater mixture of the students, racially
and economically.
H In several schools where racial mixing of the students has
J 4 taken place, students have been segregated within the schools
| through "ability grouping”. Such discrimination or segregation of
| the students is just as repulsive to constitutional equal protec-
| tion as establishing racially separate schools. Moreover, despite
| the Court order of 1965 requiring complete desegregation and non-
|| racial employment and assignment of teachers and school personnel,
the School Board has continued to employ and assign such personnel
on the basis of race and has failed to disestablish the racially
segregated staffs created prior to the 1965 order.
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Finally, school authorities are vested with the responsibili-
l|ty of providing free lunch programs under the National School
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DEPENDANT IS CONSTITUTIONALLY
REQUIRED TO TAXE ALL NECESSARY
STEPS TO DISESTABLISH THE RA-
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| alah | | (a) The Supreme Court in the second Brown opinion clearly
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anticipated that school officials-would take all appropriate and LEE
lish the racially, segregated system
effaectuation of "this interest may call for elimination of a
variety of obstacles in making the transition to school systems
operated in accordance with the constitutional principles set
sical conditions of the school plant, the school transportation
system, personnel, revision of school districts and attendance
areas into compact units to achieve a system of determining ad- lwill also consider the adequacy of any plans the defendants may
they then operated. The Court there stated that school officials
forth in our May 17, 1964 decision. ... To that end the courts may
consider problems related to administration, arising from the phy-
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propose to meet these problems and to effectuate a transition to
a racially non-discriminatory school system." Brown v. Board of
|| Education, 349 U.S. 294 at 300-301, 99 L.ed 1083 at 1106. The
by the Court in three recent decislons. Creen v. County School
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be one that will work and will work now to disestablish the se-
tically to convert promptly to a system without a 'white' schoo and a 'Negro' school, but just schools. Green, supra. It may
be that in some instrnces freedom of choice will dismantle the
Kdual school structure. It may be in some instances that school
attendance areas will be sufficient. It may be necec
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other instances to employ a combination of these or to pair
schools or to consolidate schools. The objective, however, is
Sismantle the dual school structure condemned in Brown.
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Inecessity for a plan which will clearly and effectively disestab-
lish the racially segregated school system was further spelled out
School District, 391 U.S. 443. The Court in these cases has again
made clear that the plan the school board proposes to follow must
gregated school system. No one plan may not be completely accept-
able for all school district, for communities will differ. What-
ever plan is adopted, however, must be one which promises "realis-
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tive that school officials be cognizant of any factors within the
schools ox within the community itself which might inhibit or deter
|efforts to desegregate. In Brown, the Court made clear that dis- charge of the Board's responsibility was not to be avoided simply
by disagreement with them. In Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.8. 1, the
Court made clear that the constitutional principles set forth in
AN Brown were not to yield to community hostilities. And where
- actors within the community would make the plan submitted by the
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TR om = * on do 5 PAN £ Yh. 3 ony 2H 4A Oe n.2 AI Nn 2 5% 4 1 Franklin County Board of Rducation, 394 F.2& 410 (4th Cir. 1968); ———— iia SARA AA Bond At Abapdonlivselloortemdviodooin
re. sa Bowman v. County School Board of Charles City County, 382 F.24 836 dE ae] anid TSI wa Ah — be —————— sr WL 1A "NA —— Lh A AY he, cp © at em pe pe
5 do Yu < 2 "I= ’ 8 ge -¥ de a hs 4 882 ~ ow de © rp I Ra | rd = Sth Cir. 1966); United States v. Jefforson County Poard of Tduca-
be & - R le Br Td 4 FF SPIO. A a 3 ~ — aoa - ition, 372 F.2d 836, affirmed on re-hearing en banc 380 F.2d 385, } jr na
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materials. Moreover, despite the disparities in the achievement
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in the under achieving schools, Even before Brown, the Supreme
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is designated as the responsible agency for providing free lunch
enefits for the children in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School
System. Having undertaken this responsibility with respect to
ome students or schools, defendant is constitutionally obligated
to make those benefits available to all children in the system.
Griffin v, Illinois, supra.; Griffin v., County School Board of
Defendant provides free lunch for basically all students in
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of the junior high and senior high schools, students attending
these schools are deprived of the free lunch benefits. Defendant
should be enjoined to present a plan to the Court for providing
free lunch benefits for all students in the school system who may
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continued planning and location of schools and additions to e | ing schools have clearly failed to disestablish the racially
| segregated school system. Y%efendant is constitutionally obligates ja
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ate the all-Negro and all-white schools. Plaintiffs have sub-
ted four nroposals which might be followed by the defendant.
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The first alternative plan, however, is merely a beginning of
leading to complete desegregation. The Courts
I have established that it is the defendant school board's re-
| sponsibility and not that of the plaintiffs to come forth with a
plan that will work. Should the defendant fail to do this, the
be
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v. Jefferson County Board of Fducation, supra.; Coppedge V.
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tion of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell, supra.; some
courts have called upon or directed the school officials to make
use of federal agencies established pursuant to Title IV of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §2000c et seq.; Banks v. St.
James Parish School Board I. Supp ,» (E.D. La. No. 16,173, Dec
a nb ——
10, 1968) a copy of which is attached hereto. Irrespective of
the procedure to be directed by the Court, it is clear that the
defendant is constitutionally obligated to do more and plaintiffs
submit that whatever plan is directed or approved should require
for each school in the system he percentage assignments of Negro
and white students to reflect the total number of Negro and white
students in the school system. Plaintiffs further submit that the
defendant should be enjoined from continuing to use freedom of
choice and from locating and constructing schools in a way which
perpetuates the racially segregated school system. All planned
construction of new school facilities and all additions to exist-~
ing facilities should be enjoined pending a showing by the School
Board of how these facilities will be integrated.
Defendant should also be enjoined f£rom failing to provide
and to insure equal educational opportunities for all students in
the system and should be required tp present to the Court a plan
setting forth how this will be accomplished. Defendants should
also be required to submit a plan setting forth how it will pro-
vide free lunch for all children in the school system who qualify,
It is clear that defendant has failed to desegregate sachers
and has failed to employ and assign teachers and school personnel
without regard to race or color. Defendant should be enjoined to
present a plan for desegregation of teachers in the system to be
affective with the beginning of the 1969-70 school vear providing |
for the employment and assignment of all teachers in the system
without consideration of race and the disestablishment of past
racial assignments so that each school in the system will reflect
the percentage of white and Negro teachers and school personnel
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I The Court should retain jurisdiction of this cause pending
| further and complete desegregation of the school system.
Respectfully submitted,
{| CONRAD ( 0. ® . PEA $3 REO! N
i 203 1/2 East hapel Hill Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
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J. LeVONNE CHAMBERS
| JAMES E. LANINII NG
Chambers, Stein, Ferguson &
Lanning
216 West Tenth Street
SS aiocte) North Carolina
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| JACK GREENBER
JAMES M. NABRIT, III
10 Columbus Circle
New York, New York
Attorneys for Plaintiffs
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
| The undersigned hereby certifies that copies of the foregding
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| Brief were served upon counsel for the defendant by depositing a
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| copies of same in the United States Mail, postage prepaid, ad-
dressed to: Brock Barkley, Esqg., Attorney at Law, 8l4 Law Building,
Charlotte, North Carolina 28202; and William:Waggoner, Esq.
Weinstein, Waggoner, Sturges and Odom, Attorneys at Law, Barringer
ce Towers, Charlotte, North Carolina. O th
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I This 24th day of March, 1969.
I Attorneys tor Plaintiffs
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IN HE U TED STATES DISTRICT RT. :
FOR THE :
EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
NEW ORLEANS DTVTSTON
WILFRED BANKS, et al., plaintiffs
¢ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, plaintiff-Intervenor, | CIVIL ACTION
3 a “ YIRBUS | NO. 16173
sT. JAMES Pf \RISH SCHOOL BOARD, et al., | ¥ Gre SECTION vpEn. :
LSet EG ¥ Defendants. » h 0 7
Sy RT St ORDER 2 Naan {200 hs,
CR Upon “consideration of the record herein and the arguments of
_gouns el on Wednesday, November 27th, and upon agreement by sounsel
it is’ “hereby adjudged and decreed:
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Si 2 ‘that the defendants shell seek the assistance of the
i Educational Resource Center on school desegregation which is located
| ay, 6200 Hampson Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, in the prepara-
eted of'a plan to effect a unitary non-racial system. They are further
4 ordered to make freely available to the center all information relating
“to. the operation of the school district that the center ‘shall request.
GF LE = LAT: i
Fo 2, The ‘plan shall in all respects conform to the requirements
laid dorm by the United States Supreme Court in Green v. New Kent
2: oun, Va., 391 U.S. 430, and by the Fifth Circuit Court in Adams v.
HE No. 26501, August 20, 1968 and Graves v. Walton County Board
: of Education, No. 26452, September 24, 1968. In particular the plan
shall: Le sano
ARE "be designed for implementation at the commencement of she
1969- 70 school year and SEall provide for the assignment of all students
Hoy. means of geographic attendance zones or pairing of schools, or grades,
“op both... a fete is 3 : +s Ihe
a be Jovi sed in such a manner shat, while maintaining the
: highest ‘possible quality of public education for all children, no
school! now operated by the parish shall be attended only by students of the Negro race. In order to acconplish this, the plan may provide
a physically inferior e L for’ ‘the closing of such/schools or for the assignment thereto of sub- —
“ste antial numbers of students of the other race.
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8 Si state in tabular form, for each school in tie system; the
bag 1% will serve and 3he number ang per cent of vhite and Negro -
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11dren to be enrolled in each grade in she following manner:
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« ‘¥<than January 25, 1969. The plaintiffs and defendants shall have until
February 1, 1969 to file amendments thereto. No amendments may be
filed or proposed, the necessary effect of which would pe to continue
the existence of any Xl Nauro schools. If amendments are filed, and
..a further hearing becomes necessary, the Court will at that time
‘assign a date for such hearing.
a wy, No later than March 1, 1968, the defendants shall file a
: plat providing for the complete integration of faculty and administra-
\tive staff. The plan shall state for each school:
of The name and race of the principal, the number of white and
| Negro teachers to be assigned. The plan shall state the
; name and race of any person now serving as principal or
a assistant principal who will not be so assigned for the
1969-70 school year and the reason why such person will
“. no longer be so assigned.
| New Orleans, Louisiana, November , 1968 !
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