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
[Court transcript regarding application for reassignment of African American students to all-white schools]
Date
1957
Creator
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Biographical/historical note
Benjamin Lee Smith was born February 6, 1893 in, Caldwell County, N.C. He received his A.B. from Duke University in 1916, and his M.A. from Duke in 1937. He served as superintendent of schools in the western North Carolina cities of Forest City, Rutherford-Spindale, and Shelby before assuming the same position in Greensboro, N.C., in 1935. His twenty-three year tenure in Greensboro included the years immediately following the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision ordering desegregation of public schools. In 1959, he participated in the National Civil Rights hearing on school integration. Smith died in 1961. Ben L. Smith High School in Greensboro is named for him.
Subject headings
Segregation in education--United States;Race relations
Topics
School desegregation, 1954-1958
Place
Greensboro (N.C.)
Description
This fall 1957 court transcript relates to an appeal to the North Carolina Supreme Court to reverse a lower court's decision allowing six African American children to attend two traditionally all-white schools in Greensboro, North Carolina. African American students Josephine Boyd, Harold David, Elijah Herring, Russell Herring, Brenda Florence, and Jimmie Florence had been assigned to the all-white Greensboro Senior High School and Gillespie Elementary School in the fall of 1957. White parents of children at the two schools appealed the decision, and when the case was denied, they appealed a second time (shown here) and ultimately were again denied, thus allowing desegregation of Greensboro schools to move forward.
Type
text
Original format
reports
Original dimensions
8.5" x 11"
Original publisher
Raleigh, N.C. : Supreme Court of North Carolina
Language
en
Contributing institution
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
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Object ID
Duke_RL.01210.1002
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
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
