Excerpts from Senate Report RE: Additional Views of Senator Robert Dole
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April 28, 1982

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Case Files, Alexander v. Holmes Hardbacks. Motion for Revised Plan, 1967. aac80640-d067-f011-bec2-7c1e52467ee8. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/b4e3d85b-49da-4db1-8141-9f46d4bc3a08/motion-for-revised-plan. Accessed August 19, 2025.
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——————————————————————————— * * IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI JACKSON DIVISION BEATRICE ALEXANDER, et al., ) Plaintiffs, ) Ve. ) CIVIL ACTION THE HOLMES COUNTY BOARD OF ) "XO. 3779 EDUCATION; L. R. THOMPSON ) Superintendent of Education, ) et al., ' Defendants. ) i) MOTION FOR REVISED PLAN The present plan of desegregation, as adopted and implemented by defendants, does not meet the minimum require- ments of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Con- stitution and United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education, No. 23345 (5th Cir., filed Dec. 29, 1966), aff'd en banc, March 29, 1967. WHEREFORE, plaintiffs respectfully pray that this Court: (1) Enter an order adopting the Corrected Decree set forth in United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education, No. 23345 (5th Cir., filed March 29, 1967), slip opinion, pp. 9-24; (2) Order defendants forthwith to submit, and implement prior to the beginning of the 1967-68 school year, a revised plan of desegregation conforming in every respect to the requirements of United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education, supra, which plan shall, inter alia, (a) provide for a thirty day choice period commencing May 1, 1967, or as soon thercafter as this Court may order, notwithstanding that a choice period not meeting the requirencnts of the Corrected Decree has already been held, and (b) include specific provisions for the dcscgregation of teachers and other personnel for the 1967-68 school year; (3) Order defendants, not later than fiftcen days following the closc of the choice period, to serve upon opposing counscl and file with the Clerk of this Court the reports required by section IX(1l) of the Corrected Decree. (4) Grant an early hearing on this Motion, and on such hearing grant the relief prayed for herein and such other, further, and additional relief as may appear to the Court equitable and Just. Respectfully submitted, [s/] MARIAN E. WRIGHT MARIAN E. WRIGHT PAUL BREST IRIS BREST 538% North Farish Street Jackson, Mississippi 39202 JACK GREENBERG Suite 2030 10 Columbus Circle New York, New York 10019 Attorneys for plaintiffs CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on this 8th day of April, 1967, I caused to be scrved by United States mail, postage prepaid, a copy of the foregoing Motion for Revised Plan upon all attorneys appcaring in this action. [s| MARIAN E. WRIGHT MARIAN E. WRIGHT