Report of the Wilkinson County Board of Education

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December 4, 1972

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- Education
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- Educational Equity
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- LDF
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- Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
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- Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
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- Mississippi
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- Case Files
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- 7365edd1-d267-f011-bec2-7c1e52467ee8

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Case Files, Alexander v. Holmes Hardbacks. Report of the Wilkinson County Board of Education, 1972. 7365edd1-d267-f011-bec2-7c1e52467ee8. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/1fa7c09e-c659-4002-8c7c-f7ee60bf724e/report-of-the-wilkinson-county-board-of-education. Accessed October 05, 2025.

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    COURT OF APPEALS 

  

S. Nos. 28030 - 28042 

NILKINSON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, 
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REPORT 

Comes now the Board of Education of Wilkinson County, Miss- 

issippi, and, in accord with the Order of this Honorable Court, 

respectfully submits herewith its report. 

Respect fully submitted, 

WILKINSON COUNTY\BOARD, OF ED UCATJON 

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(a) There are 140 full t ‘ schools of Wilkinson County. 

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140 

(b) School White Negro Total 

William Winans A.C. 0 16 16 

Finch Attendance Center 0 22 22 

Wilkinson Co. Trg. (chool 0 91 91 

Vocational Center grad al fe2 11 
Total 9 131 140 

(c) We do not have any part time teachers employed this year. 

(d) No part time teachers are employed this school year. 

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No requests have been made under the majority to minority transfer provision 

of the Order of November 7, 1969. 

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No inter-district transfers have requested or granted. 

The three White students who attend Wilkinson County Training School are transported 

daily on the same bus as the Negro students who reside on the same road. 

The two White students who attend Finch Attendance Center walk to school as they 

reside too close to the school to be entitled to transportation at public expense. 

The forty-seven White students who attend the Vocational Center are not entitled 

to public transportation, either. 

 



  

All facilities in the schoolgwhic Wl and gro attend are being 4 

operated on a desegregated bas 

No construction or expanslo f 5s plan 

ndoned any school 
The Wilkinson County Board C | 1 1 as not sold 

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facility, equipment or suppl 

    

The Woodville Atter 

order of November 7, 1969. The build 

maintained for further use 

abandoned the public school sys? 

  

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There is not a bi=-racial advis    

of the five member school board are Negro. 

 



  

I,:Richard T. 

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 
  

Watson, hereby certif y that I have served 

foregoing Report of December 4, 1972, by U. S. 

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to the following Attorneys at the addres- 

Honorable Edward S. Christenbury 

Attorney, Department of Justice 

ashington, D. C. 20530 

Honorable Robert Hauberg 

United States Attorney 

Southern District of Mississippi 

Federal Building 

Jackson, Mississippi 

Honorable Daniel F. Rinzel 

Attorney, Education Section 

Department of Justice 

washington, D. C. 20530 

Honorable Melvyn R. Leventhal 

538 1/2 North Farish Street 

Jackson, Mississippi 39202 

Honorable Jack Greenberg 

10 Columbus Circle, Suite 2030 

New York;—New York 10019 

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Richard T. Watson 

    lkinson County Board of Education 

1] Mississippi

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