Davis v. Board of School Comm'rs of Mobile Cty.

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1971-04-20

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Mr. Chief Justice Burger delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioners in this case challenge as inadequate a school desegregation plan for Mobile County, Alabama. The county is large and populous, embracing 1,248 square miles and the city of Mobile. The school system had 73,500 pupils in 91 schools at the beginning of the 1969 academic year; approximately 58…

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