Consent Order for Madison County School District

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March 18, 1971

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  • Case Files, Alexander v. Holmes Hardbacks. Consent Order for Madison County School District, 1971. 8f3dfdc4-d267-f011-bec2-6045bdd81421. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/64bb603a-f7f6-48ab-a6bf-6784dab3f321/consent-order-for-madison-county-school-district. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT 

  

NOS. 28030 & 28042 

  

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellant 

Vv. 

HINDS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD, ET AL., 

Defendants-Appellees., 

JOAN ANDERSON, ET AL., 

Plaintiffs~-Appellants, 

and 

UNITED STATES. OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant, 

Vv. 

CANTON MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT, 
ET AL., and MADISON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, ET AL., 

Defendants-Appellees. 

 



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CONSENT ORDER 

The parties, by their counsel of record, having 

agrend to a modification of the desegregation plan 

presently in operation in the Madison County School 

District effective beginning with the 1971-72 school 

year, it is therefore 

ORDERED 

That the desegregation plan for the Madison 

County School District ordered into effect by this Court 

on November 7, 1969 and modified by order of this Court 

on September 28, 1970 is hereby further modified in the 

following respect: In Zone III the grade structures 

of the three schools shall be consolidated so as to pro- 

duce the following grade enrollments: 

  

  

School Grades Frojected Enroilment 

Ridgeland 1-3 189 250 
Rosa Scott 4-8 250 407 

Madison-Ridgeland 9-12 177 266 

All other provisions of the November 7, 1969 

order of this Court as modified by the September 28, 1970 

order of this Court shall remain in full force and effect. 

 



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