Supreme Court of the United States May 27, 1968, 695 (Green v. County School Board of New Kent County)

Mr. Justice Brennan

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question for decision is whether, under all the circumstances here, respondent School Board’s adoption of a “freedom-of-choice” plan which allows a pupil to choose

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his own public school constitutes adequate compliance with the Board’s responsibility “to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial