Scope and Contents From the Series: The series primarily contains court documents in the Hobson v. Hansen case, originally filed in 1966, which challenged pupil tracking and expenditure inequities in D.C. public schools. Significant persons mentioned include attorney William Kunstler, plaintiffs’ attorney, and Judge Skelly Wright who ordered the D.C. school system to end de facto segregation in 1967. Court papers include court decisions, exhibits, depositions, interrogatories, and various motions in the U.S. District Court...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The series primarily contains court documents in the Hobson v. Hansen case, originally filed in 1966, which challenged pupil tracking and expenditure inequities in D.C. public schools. Significant persons mentioned include attorney William Kunstler, plaintiffs’ attorney, and Judge Skelly Wright who ordered the D.C. school system to end de facto segregation in 1967. Court papers include court decisions, exhibits, depositions, interrogatories, and various motions in the U.S. District Court...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The series primarily contains court documents in the Hobson v. Hansen case, originally filed in 1966, which challenged pupil tracking and expenditure inequities in D.C. public schools. Significant persons mentioned include attorney William Kunstler, plaintiffs’ attorney, and Judge Skelly Wright who ordered the D.C. school system to end de facto segregation in 1967. Court papers include court decisions, exhibits, depositions, interrogatories, and various motions in the U.S. District Court...