Mississippi School Order Prompts Mixed Reactions from 'Rights Attorneys

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July 11, 1964

Mississippi School Order Prompts Mixed Reactions from 'Rights Attorneys preview

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  • Legal Department General, Lani Guinier Correspondence. Memorandum from Lani Guinier to Jim Robinson Re: Marion, Alabama, 1985. c097625e-e792-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/0b18f40c-6752-4e99-8386-67b6d35c5d1f/memorandum-from-lani-guinier-to-jim-robinson-re-marion-alabama. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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Lanl Gulnler

July 10, 1985

To: Jim Robinson

1ftris is to nsnird 1u.r to include the
attadred in ttre furd raisirg carPaign. Yctl
kncnv that Ardy Yorrg t€stified for the
defendants ard that tris wife, Ooretta S@tt
Ki-ng and Rahh l\bemartltly's wife all cqre
fron l{arion, A1abana, t}re place r*tere the
jrdic'{=rents initiated. I will also give 1ut
scrre trEges frcrn a historical book $,hldl
d.iscusses t'Iarion.

ltre defendants ard the Perrlr @rnty
Civic l,eagutiafl hail frqn l,tarion, Alabam
were tfre in6bi-ration for the 1965 SeLna to
l{ont4cneqz rnarch, hthich 1ed to t}e passage
of t}re Voting Ftlghts Act ard Albeft' Iurner,
one of ttre deferdants, Ied t}e nule train
at Kingrs fimeral.

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