Consent Order for Madison County School District

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September 28, 1970

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Includes Correspondence from Clerk Ganucheau to Clerk.

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- Education
Topic
- Educational Equity
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- LDF
Matter
- Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
Case
- Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
U.S. state
- Mississippi
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- Case Files
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- 3023dfdd-cf67-f011-bec2-6045bdd81421

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Case Files, Alexander v. Holmes Hardbacks. Consent Order for Madison County School District, 1970. 3023dfdd-cf67-f011-bec2-6045bdd81421. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/12e39802-776f-44e8-90ee-d165d04351d9/consent-order-for-madison-county-school-district. Accessed October 05, 2025.

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    Vlnited States Court of Appeals 

<r FIFTH CIRCUIT 

EDWARD W. WADSWORTH OFFICE OF THE CLERK ROOM 408-400 ROYAL ST. 

CLERK 
NEW ORLEANS, LA, 70130 

September 29, 1970 

Clerk 

v. 8, District Court 

P. O. Box 769 

Jackson, Miss. 

County, et al 

Dear Sir: 

Enclosed is a certified copy of an order entered by 

the Court in the case of Madison County School District, 

et al. 

Very truly yours, 

EDWARD W. WADSWORTH, Clerk 

Gilbert F. Ganucheau 

Chief Deputy Clerk 

  

GFG/fcw 

Enc. 

cc and enc. to: 

Hon. Dan M. Russell, Jr. 

Mr. Jack Greenberg 

Mr. David L. Norman 

Mr. Melvyn Leventhal 

Mr. Joe R. Fancher 

Mr. Re. L. GOza  



  

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT 

  

NOS. 28030 & 28042 

  

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, 

Vv, 

HINDS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD, ET AL., 

Defendants-Appellees, 

JOAN ANDERSON, ET AL., 

Plaintiffs-Appellants, 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Intervenor- 
Appellant, 

Vv. 

CANTON MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL 
DISTRICT, ET AL., and MADISON 
COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., 

Defendants-Appellees. 

CONSENT ORDER 
  

The parties having agreed to modifications of the 

desegregation plan presently in effect in the Madison County 

School District; and plaintiffs having expressly reserved the 

right to apply to this Court for further relief, effective for 

the second semester of the 1970-71 school year, in the event 

the projected enrollments contained in this order are not 

substantially realized; it is therefore 

ORDERED 

That the desegregation plan for the Madison County 

School District ordered into effect by this Court on November 

 



  

7, 1969, is hereby modified in the following respects: In Zone 

  

7, the present zone line between Flora and East Flora Schools 

shall be maintained, but the Flora High School, (grades 9-12), 

shall be closed and its students reassigned to East Flora 

School; in Zone III the Madison-Ridgeland Zone shall be expanded 

to the West in such a manner as to encompass 55 to 65 additional 

children presently attending the Rosa Scott School. The pro- 

jected enrollments of the affected zones under these modifica- 

tions are as follows: 

  

Zone II School Grades Projected Enrollment 
White Negro 

Flora 1-8 16" 129 
East Flora 1-12 6 758 

Zone III Ridgeland Elementary 1-6 330 97 
Rosa Scott 1-12 32 643 
Madison-Ridgeland 1-12 268 235 

All other provisions of the November 7, 1969, order of 

this Court shall remain in full force and effect. 

IT IS SO ORDERED 

    

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HOMER THORNBERRY 
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE 

  

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LEWIS R. MORGAN 

UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE 

  

  

  

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COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANTS

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