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August 21, 1961

Appeal Challenges Tennessee County School Desegregation Plan preview

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  • Case Files, Alexander v. Holmes Hardbacks. Notice of Hearing on Motion for Modification of Desegregation Plan, 1971. b930b46c-d267-f011-bec2-6045bdffa665. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/2ac28e79-f19f-41ea-978a-c92db11fc917/notice-of-hearing-on-motion-for-modification-of-desegregation-plan. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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POWELL, FANCHER & FANCHER 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

P. O. BOX 245 

CANTON, MissIssiPpPI 39046 

  

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TELEPHONE 839-1851 

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il Mr. Robert C. Thomas, Clerk 
United States District Court 

Jackson, Mississippi 39205   | Re; Joan Anderson, et al 
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Canton Municipal Separate School District 

Civil Action No. 3700 

Dear Mr. Thomas: 

Enclosed for filing, please find Notice of Hearing on 
! Motion for Modification of Desegregation Plan.     

Thanking you for your kind attention to this matter, I am 

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Attorney for Defendant 

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI uit, 

JACKSON DIVISION 

JOAN ANDERSON, et al., 
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
Plaintiff-Intervenor, 

Vv. CIVIL ACTION NO. 3700 

CANTON MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL 
DISTRICT, et al., 

Defendants 

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NOTICE OF HEARING 
  

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Defendants will bring on for hearing 

before the Honorable Dan M. Russell, Jr., Judge for the United 

States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, in 

the United ‘Btaves Courthouse in Biloxi, Mississippi, on the 9th 

day of August, 1971, at 9:00 o'clock A.M., or as soon thereafter 

“as counsel may be heard, their Motion for Modification of 

Disegregation Plan heretofore filed by Defendants and pending before 

said Court. 

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LJOE R, FANCHER, 

P. 0. Box 245 
Canton, Mississippi 139046 

  

  

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE   

I, Joe R. Fancher, Jr., Attorney for Defendants, Canton 

Municipal Separate School District, do hereby certify that on 

this the 26th day of July, 1971, I caused to be served by United 

States mail, postage prepaid, true and correct copies of the 

foregoing Motion for Modification upon attorneys of record for 

Plaintiffs and Plaintiff-Intervenor, addressed as follows: 

Mr. Melvyn R. Leventhal 

538-3 North Farish Street 

P. O. Drawer 290 

Jackson, Mississippi 39202 

Mr. Melvyn Zarr 

10 Columbus Circle, Suite 2030 

New York, New York 10019 

Mr. David L. Norman 

Deputy Assistant Attorney General 

Department of Justice 

Washington, D.C. 20530 

Mr. C. J. Calnan, Attorney 

Department of Justice 

Washington, D.C. 20530 

Hon. Robert E. Hauberg 

United States Attorney 

P. O. Box 2091 

Jackson, Mississippi 39205 

Done this the 26th day of July, 1971. 

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¢ Joe R. Fancher, Jr. 
Attorney at Law 

P. O. Box 245 
Canton, Mississippi 39046

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