Correspondence from Pamela Karlan to Kathleen Bell, Esq. Re Whitfield v. Clinton

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UNITED STATE 

C0 U RT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al 

Appellant 

vs. Civil ‘Action 

Nos. 28030 & 28042 

NOXUBEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al 

Appellee 

REPORT REQUIRED BY ORDER OF MARCH 30, 1970 
  

COME NOW Defendants A. R. Koon, Superintendent of Education, 

James C. Avery, W. E. Hummer, P. E. Moore, Clyde M. Jernigan, and 

Sam Featherston, members of the County Board of Education of Nox- 

ubee County, Mississippi, acting herein by and through their counsel 

of record, and beg leave to report to the Court, in pursuance of 

the provisions of the order of this Court entered March 30, 1970, 

and reflecting information as of this date, as shown by the attached 

schedule. 

Respectfully submitted, 

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"ERNEST L. BROWN, Attorney at Law 
Macon, Mississippi 39341 

  

Counsel of Record for Appellees 

 



    

  

    

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The number of 

White 

33 124 0 157 

The number 

  

  

in the district. 

Wilson Attendance Center Northern Zone 

White Negro Other Total 

7 37 0 44 

Reed Attendance Center Southern Zone 

White Negro Other Total 

6 18 0 

Noxubee County Senior High School Central 

of full time teachers by race in each school 

Zone & Macon Elementary 
  

  

White Negro Other Total 

5 il 0 16 

Noxubee County Junior High Central Zone 

White Negro Other Total 

7 26 0 33 

1 - 

Noxubee County Elementary School Central 
  

8 32 0 

The number of part-time teachers by race in the 

White Negro Other Total 

0 0 0 0 

Wilson Attendance Center Northern Zone «....... 

Reed Attendance Center Southern Zone ...e..s.. 

Noxubee County Junior High Central Zone ......«.s 

Noxubee County Elementary Central Zone ....... 

Noxubee County Senior High 

ae 0 0.0 0-9 0 ¢ 0 60. 9 0 0» Macon Elementary Central Zone 

gistrict 

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 The transportation system of the district is desegregated 

to the extent that when the bus picks up the first student 

he does not by-pass any students until he has completely 

loaded his bus. 

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$500.00. 

There is a bi-racial advisory committee to the School Board 

composed of three Negroes and three Whites. 

The schools, faculties, and students are totally desegregated 

in Noxubee County. 

 



  

  

I, Ernest L. Brown, Attorney of Record for Defendants, Noxubee 

County School District, et al, do hereby certify that 1 have this 

a day mailed, by United States Mail, postage prep id, a true and Ccor- 

rect copy of the foregoing Report Required by Order of March 30,1970, 

to the following: 

Honorable Griffin B. Bell, Judge 
United States Court of Appeals 

for the Fifth Circuit 

P. O. Box 845 
Atlanta, Georgia 30301 

Honorable Lewis R. Morgan, Judge 
United States Court of Appeals 

for the Fifth Circuit 
P. O. "Box ‘759 
Newnan, Georgia 30263 

Honorable Homer Thornberry, Judge 
United States Court of Appeals 

for the Fifth Circulr 

200 West Eighth Street 
Austin, Texas 78701 

Honorable Dan M. Russell, Jr., Judge 

United States District Court for the 
Southern District of Mississippil 

Federal Building 
Gulfport, Mississippi. 393501 

Honorable Jerris Leonard 
Assistant Attorney General 
Civil Rights Division 
United States Department of Justice 
Washington, D. C. 205330 

Honorable Edward S. Christenbury, Attorney 
United States Department of Justice 
Room 960, Milner Building 

Jackson, ‘Mississippi 39201 

Honorable Robert Hauberg 
United States District Attorney 

P.O. Box 2991 
Jackson, Mississippi 39205 

Honorable R. Jess Brown, Attorney 
125% North Farish Street 
Jackson, Mississippi 39201 

Honorable A. F. Summer 
Attorney General of the State of Mississippi 

New Capitol Building 
Jackson, Mississippi 39205 

Honorable Mel 7a R. Leventhal, Attorney 
Honorable Reuben Anderson, Attorney 
Honorable In L. Banks, Jr., Attorney 

538% North Farish Street 
Jackson, Mississippi 39202 

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Honorable Jack Greenberg, Attorney 
Honorable Norman J. Chachkin, Attorney 
Honorable Melvyn Zarr, Attorney 

Suite 2030, 10 Columbus Circle 
New York, New York 10019 

WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this the 7th day of January, 1971. 

  

ERNEST L. BROWN