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LDF Attorneys
Cooperating Attorney
- Leslie J. Winner
Organization
- NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, Inc.
Matter
- Gingles
Case
- Thornburg v. Gingles
U.S. state
- North Carolina
Collection
- Case Files
Taxonomy
Identifier
- 7ff1295d-df92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873

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Case Files, Thornburg v. Gingles Working Files - Guinier. At-Large Elections Debated News Clipping, 1983. 7ff1295d-df92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/8aa3e6ae-5856-4e32-a377-e2777ee58bbf/at-large-elections-debated-news-clipping. Accessed April 06, 2025.

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Critics and supporters of a pro
p6al to bave Wahe school board
membens elected at large argued
tieir cases Monday night at a pub
lic hearing held by tbe county's
bgislative delegation.

fte proposal was backed by lo
cal neighborhood and black groups
upeet by the rcccnt dccision by the
board - whse members are
elected by district - to close three
aehools, two of which are pedomi-
runtly blact schods insitb the
Beltline.

"Children don't go !o school by
disfpig[5," and board members
should not be elected on that basis,
said Vernon Malone, the school
board's only black member. He
said lVake voters "feel totally
diconfranchised" when they cair
influence only one membei of a
bolrd tbat adminisiers the scbml
h*et.

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1- r. "l 3m sgeking some way to hold
this board, and Ery othq elected
Dmy, acrountable for tbe deci_
sions that it must ma&e at the
.polls," Malone slid.

.But srpportr* of the district
serron system said it had served
Slecuuntywell.,

"Tonigbt I'm croming here 0o ask
y.or to leave theloard-etections ast[ey now etrid,-, school board
glgugan Cbarlotte L{rrtin said.
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.She defgnded the;board's deci_$og q dose L.ngview, phillios
arxt Sormrmd-Batcs elemontaivdmbl raving the boerd ilmsid-
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Gili(rn was, that we all agonized
if.again qlde a wise, fai; and, I
.gnf, ton all the bcst decision,"
Irs. Uartinsaid.

Oppomnts of the at-larse ore
posal said such electionjwoUa
usher in a new type of schoot board
member: politically driven candi-
d,ates with morc election monev to
spend than current board m6m_
ben. Bgard membens now serving
generally are plA-t1ryes who fit i
vduntoer profile bettrer than a po_

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the_next-sessionl, fqsseii said: 

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what stancre * r.q-F O"I"E"U.;
woutd taleo0 the bilt.

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At-Large Elections Debated News Clipping

LDF Attorneys

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U.S. state

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Cite this item

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