Palmer v. Thompson

After courts found Jackson, Mississippi's racially segregated public pools unconstitutional but declined to order desegregation by injunction, the city desegregated its other facilities but chose to close four of its five pools rather than operate them on a desegregated basis; Palmer and other Black residents (plaintiffs) sued city official Thompson (defendant), seeking to compel reopening the pools on a desegregated basis, and the lower courts denied relief.