Sharkey-Issaquena Line Consolidated School District Desegregation Plan

    MAM O NTQMDT AMM ANTITDM 
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Ly hol Bi a) DISTRICT SORRY 

ND TTT CATITIITDN T\TOMDTAM AT Y COTDDDT 
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI 

: TE ‘al mTID hy & “re "TY me 

Wid 1 LRN DIVISION 

JEREMIAH BLACKWELL, JR., ET AL PLAINTIFFS 

THE SHARKEY-ISSAQUENA LINE 

CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT, ET AL DEFENDANT, AL ENDA AN LO 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AMICUS CURIAE 

SCHOOL PLAN FOR DESEGREGATION 
  

Now comes the Board of Trustees of the Sharkey-Issaquena Line 

Consolidated School District, by its attorney, and submits the fol- 

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0 lowing school plan for the desegregation of its schools for the 

school year 1969-1970, according to the requirements of 

cisional law, pursuant to the Order of this Court dated July 31 

1. The Issaquena Elementary School, composed of grades 1-6 

and heretofore attended by 155 Negro students and no white students, 

will be closed. The 155 Negro students who would have attended this 

school winder. freedom of choice and 6 Negro teachers will be as- 

signed to the Fielding Wright Elementary School. 

M1 " 3 . AL WE Lee DI SI, PRINT BE A Be BE RE BL PIS i pm 2. The racial composition of the Fielding Wright Elementary 

CG rlvrmnT i met 1 on nares 7 i TA. Sar WERE ll 0 NT, ry NY rao i fe ) NO, School will then be as follows: White-54.18%; Negro-45.82%. 

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