Correspondence from Pamela Karlan to Leslie Winner Re Alternative Voting

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November 30, 1987

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  • Press Releases, Volume 6. Greenberg Statement on Mississippi School Board and HEW Integration Plans, 1969. 6e39d1d8-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/3319e2fd-d890-4a4b-a1e4-d66f2065b5d2/greenberg-statement-on-mississippi-school-board-and-hew-integration-plans. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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    Statement by Jack Greenberg, Director-Counsel, 
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. 

November 6, 1969 

Our lawyers are meeting today with counsel for the Mississippi 

school boards, the U.S. Department of Justice and experts of the 

Department of Health, Education and Welfare in conference with 

Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. 

Our proposed order to the Court states that (1) the Court should 

order immediate desegregation; (2) the plans previously prepared 

by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for each of 

these districts should go into effect within 8 days or less; and 

(3) in the case of three school districts for which HEW plans 

proposed desegregation in 1970-71, we ask that HEW revise those 

plans within 5 days to provide for immediate implementation, 

and in no event implementation taking longer than 8 days from 

submission of the plans. 

The period 6f 8 days was selected because these plans originally 

were designed for implementation within 8 days following the issuance 

of a court order. The period of time is, therefore, not selected 

arbitrarily but is based on the intrinsic nature of the plans 

themselves. 

Most of the Mississippi school boards involved have already 

submitted their own proposed plans to the Court of Appeals as 

proposed substitutes for the HEW plans. The school boards' proposals 

have no uniformity and are all peculiarto the counties involved. 

But the point is that they have been submitted and generally contain 

mid-school year deadlines. 

The Department of Justice proposed order is slower by far than 

what the Mississippi school boards themselves have done. The 

Department of Justice has proposed no time limit on when the school 

boards should present plans; even though those boards have, for 

the most part, acted rapidly. The Department of Justice has proposed 

no time limitations on the issuance of an order or for the completion 

of desegregation, whereas the Mississippi school boards, generally, 

have done that. 

We continue to maintain the position which we advanced before 

Supreme Court of the United States and which it ordered on October 

The time for litigation has passed and the time for integration is

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