The District Court held that this was a permissible action on the part of the board. It is abundantly clear from the evidence that the Oklahoma law (70 O.S.

The transfer of white children from elementary schools living in the Douglass area to white schools was 168. Where brother and sister may attend the same school. The district court declined, but on appeal the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled that the injunction was never formally removed. 1083, the Oklahoma School Board for the first time was confronted with the duty of desegregating the segregated policy of law, of custom and tradition for a period of fifty years. The problem confronting the Oklahoma City School Board was one of long standing, requiring a complete disregard of the old, unjust and unreasonable laws relating to the rights of the Negro citizens. 2. If any white child were denied such right all would be indignant; why not let it be so with our Negro children. v. Board of Education of Oklahoma City Public Schools et al., 396 U.S. 269 (1969). Delbert Burnett, Negro, principal of Culbertson Elementary School, testified that he has under his supervision 25 Negro teachers and no white teachers, and that his school has an enrollment of 1067, of which 1064 are Negro students and 3 are white students.

That he had 15 portable or temporary buildings, or a total of 57 teaching stations. During the school year 1954-55 there were no Negro teachers assigned to teach white students in the white schools or white and Negro schools *438 where the white students were predominant and the same was true for the year 1961-62 and all years in between.

Miss Ruby Dabney, Negro, principal of Orchard Park Elementary School, testified that she has under her supervision 5 Negro teachers and no white teachers, and 139 Negro students and one white student and 2 Indian students. * * *" He further testified: 7. 873.

He is bound to have left Northeast High School with a complete conviction that because of his race he was completely rejected, and the Court is of the belief and opinion that he was rejected solely because of his race.

181, where the School Board employed experts in the field of segregation to analyze and advise on the matter of integration. In an opinion filed today with the clerk, we reverse the Court of Appeals and hold that its test for dissolving a desegregation decree is more stringent than is required by either this court's decision dealing with injunctions, or by the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. If this had been a fact, then it is the belief that Dr. Jack Parker, the Superintendent of Schools, knew this fact even before the Board passed upon the application. 2. The plaintiffs complain that the School Board has followed a practice of nonintegration by permitting and allowing students of elementary, junior high and senior high school to transfer when such students may be attending school wherein their race is in the minority to a school where their race will be in the majority, based solely upon the ground that the student is unhappy in attending the school under such circumstances and transfers will be made when the parents and the School Board believe it would be in the best interest of the student to make such transfer. Bert Watkins, Negro, principal of Dunbar Elementary School, testified that he has under his supervision 25 Negro teachers and no white teachers, and 925 Negro students and no white students. This policy, Defendant's Exhibit 1, is set forth verbatim, as follows: The policy set forth in this resolution is the same policy the School Board had followed at all times since 1955. The testimony is clear that if he had presented himself originally to Northeast High School he may or may not have been admitted (testimony of Mr. M. J. Burr). The evidence indicates that the young boy had the feeling of regardless of how hard he worked he would be met with reprisals to the extent that he should not undertake to enroll in Northeast High School, and after his conference with Mr. Scott he temporarily abandoned his desire to go to Northeast High School but instead enrolled in Bishop McGuiness High School, a Catholic High School in north central Oklahoma City. There can be no argument but that such a policy is designed to perpetuate and encourage segregation, and not a good faith effort to integrate the public schools as required by the United States Supreme Court. The complaint and requested relief of Gary Russell is denied. 2. 427 (W.D. In May 1961 Dr. A. L. Dowell made application to the County Superintendent that his son be transferred to the Oklahoma City School District for the year 1961-62, which application was granted by the Oklahoma County Superintendent, and thereafter called upon the Assistant Superintendent of Schools, M. J. Burr, requesting permission for his son, Robert Dowell, to attend Northeast High School, stating that it was a better school than Douglass High School and that other Negro children from Pleasant Hill School District and white children from Pleasant Hill School District had been permitted to go to Northeast High School during the year 1960-61, and that his son should have the same privilege. Board of Education of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell, (1991). Dr. Jack Parker testified that there were approximately 140 temporary or otherwise portable structures used by the School Board in the Oklahoma City school system. Board of Education of Oklahoma City v. Dowell , 498 U.S. 237 (1991), was a United States Supreme Court case "hasten[ing] the end of federal court desegregation orders." 89, and the individual defendants named, are hereby permanently restrained and enjoined from continuing or pursuing the policy commonly referred to as "minority to majority," said policy being hereby held to be unconstitutional, void and unenforceable, and such practice and policy shall no longer be pursued by the defendants, or any of them. That John Mike Jones and James Robert Trotter were enrolled in Northeast High School and that they were both from Pleasant Hill Dependent School District, and that they attended Northeast High School without being required to take electronics. Atty. The School Board of the City of Oklahoma City, Independent District No.

That there were at that time 260 legally transferred students attending Northeast High School from other dependent school districts, such as Pleasant Hill District, who were not required to take electronics or other special courses. That the feeling of a Negro student predominant in the school in his own race being denied as his principal and/or teacher brings this Court to the conclusion that the statement made by the Honorable Earl Warren is here most appropriate, wherein he declared that segregation of Negro children, especially in their formative years, "generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone." 4. In 1984, the Board passed the Student Reassignment Plan (SRP), which lessened busing in an effort to reduce travel time for black students.

Mrs. Hazel Horn, Negro, Superintendent of Carver Elementary School, testified that she has under her supervision 17½ Negro teachers and no white teachers, and 665 Negro students and no white students.

It is therefore the order of this Court that the Oklahoma City Board of Education is ordered to cease and desist its policy of minority to majority, or transfer of students from one school to another school as pronounced in the Board's Resolution of April 10, 1963. Judge A. P. Murrah, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, on the 11th day of October, *429 1961, did constitute a three-Judge Court composed of Chief Judge A. P. Murrah, of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Honorable Luther Bohanon, and the Honorable Fred Daugherty, Judges of the Eastern, Western and Northern Districts of the State of Oklahoma.

Thus one of the barriers to Negroes owning property anywhere in the city has been eliminated. The Court finds and concludes that Robert Dowell's request for transfer from Douglass High School to Northeast High School was denied and refused because of his race and color. The Board of Education of the Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell ... a federal District Court forced the "Finger Plan" upon the Board of Education of Oklahoma City as a way to decrease segregation within the school system. That should Robert Dowell present himself as a student at Northeast High School for the school term beginning September, 1963, he shall be enrolled in classes and study courses commensurate with his grade and standing as a student, without being required to enroll in any course of study other than that required for other students in said Northeast High School. After a considerable discussion the Oklahoma City School Board went on record concerning the special transfer of Robert Dowell and on that day passed the following motion: In due time young Robert Dowell appeared before Lederle J. Scott, principal of Northeast High School, and was prepared to enroll. 309 F.2d 621; Wheeler v. Durham City Board of Education (4 Cir.) The Court will only recite such portion as reflects the almost total segregation of its schools. The Negroes lived in great anticipation of mixed schools of Negroes and whites, to the extent that the Negro race will be considered equal in all things and in all manners to the white race with reference to the education of children.

Mr. M. J. Burr, Assistant Superintendent of Oklahoma City Schools, testified: Plaintiff submitted interrogatories to Dr. Jack F. Parker, Superintendent of the Oklahoma City School Board, which gave the following pertinent data: The number of school buildings in the Oklahoma City School District that had all-Negro enrollments for the school years: The number of school buildings in the Oklahoma City School District that had all-White enrollments for the school years: The number of Negro students that attended public schools under Dr. Parker's supervision and control that had racially integrated student bodies for the school years: That the number of white high school transfer students out of the Douglass High School area for the school year 1962-63 were 98 and the Negro transfers out of other high school areas to the Douglass High School was 11, or a total of 109. Under Oklahoma Statutes a parent living in a dependent school district need only file an application with the County Superintendent setting forth that in his district there are no high schools. That he had enrolled 1821 Negro students and no white students. Get Board of Education of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell, 498 U.S. 237 (1991), United States Supreme Court, case facts, key issues, and holdings and reasonings online today. Generally speaking, they are: 1. 1187, these restrictive covenants have been unenforceable in the Courts. That a statutory three-Judge Court be assembled and that upon the trial hereof the Court issue an order, judgment and decree that will declare the provisions of Section 5, Article I, Constitution of Oklahoma, and statutes requiring segregation, unconstitutional and void. HAVEN’T FOUND ESSAY YOU WANT? ), was originally one of attorneys for plaintiff. Board of Education of Oklahoma City Public Schools. From the record this is and has been the policy of the School Board at all times since the opinion in the Brown cases, supra, and it is claimed to be based upon the premise that it is for the best interest of the student and the best interest of the school system. To understand the situation more clearly, it must be pointed out that the east and southeast portion of the original City of Oklahoma City was Negro, and all other sections and districts of the original city of Oklahoma City were occupied by the white race. In Harmony Elementary School, where there are 179 white students and 139 Negro students, the principal and all teachers are white. (now Asst.

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