Affidavit in Support for an Injunction

In this excerpt from the affidavit in support for an injunction in the court case James William Webb, Jr. et al. v. The Board of Education of the City of Chicago and Benjamin Willis, the plaintiff’s attorney, Paul B. Zuber, explains his analysis of segregation in Chicago Public Schools. This is a civil case in which nineteen parents on behalf of their children brought a suit against the City of Chicago Board of Education and Benjamin Willis, general superintendent of the City of Chicago schools on September 18, 1961. The defendants were charged with maintaining and operating a racially segregated public school system in violation of the fourteenth amendment. The amended complaint was dismissed based on an out-of-court settlement on August 28, 1963. The plaintiffs failed in their attempt to have that decision voided on October 21, 1963 and filed another complaint in the Chicago federal court, leading to civil case 63C1895. The case file includes motions, notices, complaints, orders, and exhibits of photographs and maps. This document was digitized by teachers in our Primarily Teaching 2014 Summer Workshop in Chicago.