North Carolina State Bd. Of Educ. v. Swann, 402 U.S. 43 (1971)

Name: North Carolina State Bd. Of Educ. v. Swann, 402 U.S. 43 (1971) - Syllabus
Author: U.S. Supreme Court

North Carolina State Board of Education v. Swann

No. 498

Argued October 13, 1970
Decided April 20, 1971
402 U.S. 43

APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA

Syllabus

North Carolina’s Anti-Busing Law, which flatly forbids assignment of any student on account of race or for the purpose of creating a racial balance or ratio in the schools and which prohibits busing for such purposes, held invalid as preventing implementation of desegregation plans required by the Fourteenth Amendment. Pp. 45-46.

312 F.Supp. 503, affirmed.

BURGER, C.J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.

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