Order Modifying Leake County Desegregation Plan

    . United States Court of Appeals 
FIFTH CIRCUIT 

  

EDWARD W. WADSWORTH OFFICE OF THE CLERK ROOM 408-400 ROYAL ST. 
CLERK NEW ORLEANS, LA. 70130 

January 29, 1971 

Clerk 

U.. 8. District Court 

P. O. Box 769 

Jackson, Miss. 

Nos. 28030 & 28042 - U.S.A. vs. Hinds 

County, et al 
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Dear Sir: 

Enclosed is a certified copy of an order entered by 
the Court in the Leake County School Board case with 
a map attached. A copy of the order with the map is 
also being forwarded to Honorable Dan M. Russell, Jr. 
The attorneys are being furnished a copy of the order 
without attachment. 

Very truly yours, 

EDWARD oe WADSWORTH, Clerk 

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Gilbert F. Ganucheau 

Chief Deputy Clerk 

  

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Hon. Dan M. Russell, Jr. 

Mr. Jack Greenberg 

Hon. David L. Norman 

Mr. Melvyn Leventhal 

Mr. Harold W. Davidson 

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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT 

  

  

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiffs, | 

J and 28030 

HINDS COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, 

et al., | 

Defendants. ) 

) 

DIAN HUDSON, et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

VS. ) CIVIL ACTION 

) RO. 3382 

LEAKE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD, ) 

et al. ’ ) 

Defendants. 

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ORDER 

  

Plaintiffs having filed on December 15, 1970 their 

Motion for Modification, and defendants having answered that 

they will consent to the said Motion for Modification, it is, 

therefore, hereby ORDERED: 

1. The plan of pupil assignment established by the 

November 7, 1969 order of this Court, is modified as fol- 

lows: 

a). the boundaries of the five geographic zones of 

the Leake County School District shall coincide with the red 

lines drawn on the attached map of the school district; these 

new boundaries shall supersede and replace the zone bounda- 

ries established by this Court's November 7, 1969 order; 

 



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b) students residing within the Carthage Attendance 

  

Zone Four shall be assigned to facilities located within that 

zone as follows: all students in grades 1-5 shall be assigned 

to the Carthage Elementary School facility; all students in 

grades 6-9 shall be assigned to the Jordan School facility; 

all students in grades 10-12 shall be assigned to the Carthage 

High School facility. 

2. The above specified modifications shall be implemented 

commencing with the 1971-72 school year and shall control pu- 

pil assignments for that school year and each school year there- 

after unless specifically and otherwise ordered by this Court. 

3. Defendants shall venaly, or maintain in a state of 

good repair, the grounds, equipment and facilities of the 

Jordan School during the balance of the current school year; 

and they shall take such other steps as are necessary to as- 

sure the reopening of that facility as required by this order. 

4. All other provisions of this Court's November 7, 1969 

Order shall remain in full force and effect. 

IT IS SO ORDERED, 

This V day of {dara ro 51971, 
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MEL YN R. LEVENTHAL 
Counisel for Plaintiffs 

  

BEN L. KRAGE 
Counsel for the United States, 
Plaintiff-Intervenor 

  

approved as to form: 

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HAROLD W. DAVIDSON 
Counsel for Defendants