Lee v. Macon County Board of Education

This school desegregation case involves the student assignment provisions of the plan for desegregating the public schools in Calhoun County, Alabama. The United States, plaintiff-intervenor, appeals from that portion of the courts order which would have the effect of leaving approximately 45 percent of this small districts Negro students in two virtually all-black schools; pairing alternatives would fully segregate both schools. We feel compelled to reverse the district court on this issue.