[Court transcript regarding application for reassignment of African American students to all-white schools]

              NORTH CAROLINA SUPREME COURT FALL TERM 1957
IN RE: APPLICATIONS FOR REASSIGNMENT*
Josephine Ophelia Boyd from DUDLEY
HIGH SCHOOL TO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS
Harold McDuffie Davis, Elijah J,
Herring, Jr., and Russell Herring
from LINCOLN JR. HIGH SCHOOL to
GILLESPIE JR. HIGH SCHOOL! Brenda        No. 612 - Guilford
Kay Florence and Jimmie B.
Florence from BLUFORD SCHOOL to
GILLESPIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Appeal by J. E. Turner, Jr. and others from Preyer,
J., at Chambers, August 1957, Guilford.
Greensboro City Board of Education (hereinafter
designated as Board) in May 1957 promulgated rules and regulations for the enrollment and assignment of pupils as provided by Art. 21 c. 115 of the General Statutes of North
Carolina. The Board is an administrative unit charged with
the responsibility of operating the public schools within its
boundaries. Prior to the 1957-1958 school year the Board
operated separate schools for members of the white and Negro
races.
During June 1957 and within the time pi escribed by
the regulations, applications were made by parents of Negro
children for reassignment from schools they had previously
attended to schools theretofore restricted to white children.
The applications, made for individual children? designated the
school the applicant desired his child to attend and gave the
reason for the requested reassignment. Separate requests
were filed for the reassignment of: (l) Josephine Ophelia
Boyd to Senior High School; (2) Harold McDuffie Davis to
Gillespie Junior High School § (3) Elijah H. Herring, Jr. to
Gillespie Junior High School $    (4) Russell Herring to Gillespie
Junior High Schools (5) Brenda Kay Florence to Gillespie