Identifier	richardreediii001
Title	Robert Anthony Reed III
Subject	Robert Anthony Reed III
Description	"[W]hen Cleveland student was plaintiff in desegregation case."--photo verso. Robert Anthony Reed III in front of the Cleveland Board of Education. Reed was the first name listed as plaintiff along with fourteen other named plaintiffs in the case Reed v. Rhodes, Case No. C73-1300. The plaintiffs alleged that the State of Ohio and the Cleveland Public Schools intentionally created and maintained a segregated school system based on race that violated the 14th Amendment rights of black school children. The case was filed on December 12, 1973 in the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio. At that time, Reed attended Robert H. Jamison Junior High School, 13905 Harvard Ave. SE, which was 99.6% black. On August 31, 1976, Judge Battisti decided that the State of Ohio and the Cleveland Public Schools intentionally created and maintained a segregated school system. Reed v. Rhodes, 422 F.Supp 708, 796-97 (N.D. Ohio 1976), aff'd, 662 F.2d 1219 (6th Cir. 1981). Reed graduated before the Cleveland Public Schools implemented the desegregation plan.
Creator	unknown
Location Depicted	Cleveland (Ohio)
Time Period	Decline and Comeback: 1960-1990
Date Original	1981-09-18
Object Type	black-and-white photographs
Case Name	Reed v. Rhodes
Digital Collection	Legal Landmarks in Cleveland History
Donor	Cole, Joseph E.
Copyright	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/;
Format	Jpeg
Repository	Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Repository Collection	Cleveland Press
Repository Homepage	http://library.csuohio.edu/speccoll/index.html;
Digital Publisher	Cleveland Memory Project
Further Reading	Peter Almond, Meet Plaintiff in Bias Case - and His Family, Cleveland Press, November 15, 1975. Jane M. Littleton, NAACP Case Decision is Too Late for Pupil Plaintiff, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), September 6, 1976, at 44, 46.

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