Orders for Hinds County School Board

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Correspondence from Clerk Wadsworth from Clerk Thomas.

Impact area
- Education
Topic
- Educational Equity
Matter
- Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
Case
- Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
U.S. state
- Mississippi
Collection
- Case Files
Taxonomy
Identifier
- 00673504-d267-f011-bec2-6045bdffa665

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Case Files, Alexander v. Holmes Hardbacks. Orders for Hinds County School Board, 1972. 00673504-d267-f011-bec2-6045bdffa665. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/64377cea-30e8-49bf-9055-868fb23110fc/orders-for-hinds-county-school-board. Accessed November 19, 2025.

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FIFTH CIRCUIT : 600 camp STREET 

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

September 28, 1972 

Mr. Robert C. Thomas, Clerk 
U. 8. District Court 
P. O. Box 769 

Jackson, Mississippi 39205 

RE: Nos. 28030 & 28042 - U.S.A. vs. Hinds County, 

Dear My. Thomas: 

Enclosed is a certified copy of an order entered by the court 
in the Hinds County School case. 

Very truly yours, 

EDWARD W, WADSWORTH, Clerk 

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By 0 QA of F 4 Y./ Giclee 

Deputy Clerk 
  

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enclosure 

cc and enclosure to: 

Mr, Robert C. Cannada 

Hon, Dan M, Russell 
Mr, Jack Greenberg 
Mr, David L. Norman 

Mr. Melvyn Leventhal 

 



  

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EDWARD W. WADS WORT 

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS CLERK L 

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT 

  

NOS. 28030 & 28042 

  

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff 

Vv, 

BHINDS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD, ET Al., 

Defendants 

  

Appeal from the United States District Court 

Southern District of Mississippi 

  
(September 28, 1972) 

Before BELL, THORNBERRY, and MORGAN, Circuit Judges. 

BY THE COURT: ~- 

The modification to the student assignment plan for 

the Hinds County School System which was approved by Honorable 

Dan M. Russell, Jr., United States District Judge in an order 

dated September 19, 1972 (order appended hereto), is hereby 

adopted and made the order of this court. 

IT IS SO ORDERED this 28 day of September, 1972. 

  

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI 

JACKSON DIVISION, 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) 
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PLAINTIFF ) 
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HINDS COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, ) 
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DEFENDANTS ) 

ORDER 

Came on this day for hearing the request of the Hinds 

County Board of Education that the desegregation plan for the 

  

CIVIL ACTION NUMBER 4075 (J) 

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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI 

BY   

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ROBERT C. THOMAS, CLr 

  

Hinds County School System, ordered into effect by the Fifth 

Circuit Court of Appeals on November 7, 1569, in Civil Action 

Number 28042, be modified; and 

It appearing unto fhe Court, and the Court finding 

that proper notice has been given to attorneys for the plaintiff 

and attorneys for the intervenor, and that no objection to the 

proposed modification has been filed with the Court; and 

It further appearing unto the Court, and the Court 

finding that rather than approve the proposed modification 

in toto that the Court should approve specific changes in 

designated attendance cen 

It further appearing unto the Court, and the Court 

finding, based upon representations of the attorneys for the 

Hinds County Board of Education, that only changes in the 

grades to be assigned to certain desi 

are contemplated at this time; 

gnated attendance centers 

IT IS, THEREFORE, ordered and adjudged, subject to 

  

  

  

 



  

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approval of this order by the Fifth Circul t Court of Appeals, 

that the plan of desegregation hereinabove referenced for the 

Hinds County School District be, and the same is hereby modified 

to the following extent, and to the following extent only: 

The Hinds County Board of Education shall have the 

authority. to change the grades served by the Edwards Consolidated 

School from grades 1 and 2 to grades 1, 2 and 3; and to change 

the grades served by the Edwards Junior High School from grades 3 

through 9 to grades 4 through 9. 

It is specifically ordered that this modification 

"does not authorize any, change in the lines of any of the zones 

heretofore set forth in the above referenced desegregation 

plan, nor does it authorize the transfer of any pupils from 

one of said zones to another zone. Except as herein specific- 

ally modified, said desegregation plan remains in full force 

and effect. 

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ORDERED AND ADJUDGED this the hii day of i liz Aen 

  

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