Correspondence from Kirk to Still
Correspondence
September 15, 1986

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Case Files, Dillard v. Crenshaw County Hardbacks. Correspondence from Kirk to Still, 1986. b887fe97-b7d8-ef11-a730-7c1e527e6da9. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/66fa4f50-c634-4e52-aa40-bf6e352ef801/correspondence-from-kirk-to-still. Accessed April 27, 2025.
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LAW OFFICES WO Fok A CURRY & KIRK P.O. DRAWER A-B Corroltlon, tloluma ITH J. H. CURRY (1801-1984) AREA CODE 205 W. O. KIRK, JR. September 15, 1986 TELEPHONE 367-8125 —, Mc. Edward Still Copy Attorney at Law 714 South 29th Street Birmingham, AL 35233 Re: Dillard vs. Crenshaw County (Pickens County) Dear Ed: I received your letter of September 11, 1986, with regard to the above case. The stipulation entered into between Pickens County and the Plaintiffs call for elections in November of this year under an approved remedial election plan and to this date there is no approved remedial election plan. The plan that Pickens County submitted to the Court and to the Justice Department calls for single-member district commissioners from Districts Two and Four to be elected in 1986 and no elections for commissioners in Distrists One and Three until 1988 and there is certainly no reason to suggest that commissioners be elected by any means for Districts One and Three until the year 1988. Since the four commission district plan filed by Pickens County has no changes in Districts Two and Four and since they have had single-member district elections in the Primary, it would seem to me that no additional election would be necessary except the General Election in November which could be held under single-member district voting for Districts Two and Four. With regard to your list of questions, Pickens County would respond as follows: (1) There is no problem with identifying voters under the four member plan as that has already been done. (2) The public has been well informed by radio and newspaper accounts, as well as a public hearing concerning this case and the position of the parties. (3) It would be a virtual impossibility to reidentify voters under the five member plan submitted by the Plaintiffs by November 4, 1986. The five member plan cuts across all precinct district lines in Pickens County and the plan itself only identified population and nct voting precincts and not registered voters. (4) Certainly, no candidate qualification deadlines have been set as that would be impossible under the condition of not knowing which plan will be implemented. The position of Pickens County is that no elections will be necessary 1in November of 1986 except for the elections of commissioners in Districts Two and Four to be voted on only by the registered voters of the respective Districts Two and Four in the General Election. There would be no elections in Districts One and Three until 1988. All of this is in accordance with the plan submitted to the Justice Department and the Court. Sincerely yours, WOKjr:bw cc: Hon. Myron H. Thompson U. S. District Judge P.O. BOX 235 Montgomery, AL 36101 Mr. James U. Blacksher Blacksher, Menefee & Stein, P. A. P. O. Box 1051 Mobile, AL 36633 Mr. Larry Menefee Blacksher, Menefee & Stein, P. A. Fifth Floor, Title Building 300 21st Street North Birmingham, AL 35203 Mr. Terry G. Davis Seay & Davis P.O. Box 6215 Montgomery, AL 36106 Mr. Julius L. Chambers Ms. Deborah Fins NAACP Legal Defense Fund 99 Hudson Street New York, NY 10013