Report on Wilkinson County Board of Education

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Lurleen Burns Wallace serving in her capacity as Governor of the State of Alabama. United States also acting as appellee. Henry A. Lee, by Detroit Lee and Hattie M. Lee, Their Parents and Next Friends; Palmer Sullins, Jr., Alan D. Sullins and Marsha M Arie Sullins, by Palmer Sullins and Della D. Sullins, Their Parents and Next Friends; Gerald Warren Billes and Heloise Elaine Billes, by I. V. Billes, Their Father and Next Friend; W Il L Ie M. Jackson, Jr., by Mabel H. Jackson, His Mother and Next Friend; Willie Bryant Jr., and Brenda J. Wyatt, by Willie B. Wyatt and Thelma a. Wyatt, Their Parents and Next Friends; Nelson N. Boggan, Jr., by Nelson Boggan, Sr., and Mamie Boggan, His Parents and Next Friends; Willie C. Johnson, Jr., Brenda Faye Johnson and Dwight W. Johnson, by Willie C. Johnson and Ruth Johnson, Their Parents and Next Friends, and William H. Moore and E D W in a M. Moore, by L. James Moore and Edna M. Moore, Their Parents and Next Friends, acting as appellees. Date is approximate.

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- Education
Notable Person
- Jack Greenberg
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- NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, Inc.
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- Brief Collection
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- 24315b66-c89a-ee11-be36-6045bdeb8873

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Case Files, Alexander v. Holmes Hardbacks. Report on Wilkinson County Board of Education, 1971. fde2fbbe-cf67-f011-bec2-6045bdd81421. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/5b8e7c96-8586-48c8-b95f-bdc1e1de9546/report-on-wilkinson-county-board-of-education. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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(a) There are 2615 students enrolled in the schools of Wilkinson County. 
Of this number 2597 are Negro; eighteen (18) ane White. 

  

(b) Schoo White Negho 
William Winans Attendance Center 0 327 

Finch Attendance Center 3 384 

Wilkinson County Training School a 1886 

Vocational Center 15 _58 
Total 18 2597 

*These 58 students are included in the totals fon William Winans 
Attendance Center and Wilkinson County Training School. 

(ec) William Winans Attendance Centex 
Centreville, Mississippi 

        

Grade White Negro Total 

7 0 96 96 

8 0 60 60 

9 0 39 39 

10 0 45 45 

11 0 42 42 

12 ig 5 45 

Total 0 327 327 

Finch Attendance Center 
Centreville, Mississippi 

    

Grade White Negro Totat 
! 2 73 75 

2 0 63 63 

3 0 52 52 

4 | 73 74 

5 0 55 55 

; wg 68 68 
Total 3 384 387 

 



  

11. 

(a}] There are 156 full time teachers in the schools of Wilkinson County. 

  

  

  

  

  

White Negro Total 

11 145 156 

(b) School White Negro Total 

Welliam Winans Attendance Center 1/2 18 18 1/2 

Finch Attendance Center 0 24 1/2 24 1/2 

Wilkinson County Training School 1/2 102 1/2 103 

Vocational Center 0... 0 10 

Total 11 145 156 

(e) No part time teachers are employed by the school district. One 
teacher who 48 while is employed full time to instruct one-half day 
each at two. schools. 

(d) One full time White teacher instructs one-half day each at William 
Winans Attendance Center and Wilkinson County Training School. 

111. 

No requests have been made under the majority to minority trhansger provision 
of the Onder of November 7, 1969. 

IV. 

No inter-district transfers have been requested on granted. 

Only Negro students ride the county-owned school buses. The three white 
Students who attend Finch Attendance Center walk to school as they neside 
Zoo close Lo the school to be entitled to be transported at public expense. 
The gifteen white students who attend the Vocational Center are not entitled 
Zo public transportation, eithen. 

VI. 

ALL facilities, in the one school which both white and Negro attend, are 
being operated on a desegregated basis. 

VII. 

No constuction on expansion 04 gacilities 4s planned. 

 



  

Wilkinson County Training School 
Woodville, Missi844Lppd 

Grade White 

Special Education 0 

] 0 

2 0 

3 0 

4 0 

5 0 

6 0 

7 0 

8 0 

9 0 

10 0 

11 0 

12 KY 
Total 0 

Vocational Center 
Woodville, Mississippi 

Class on Grade 
  

Auto Mechanics 

Metal Trades 

Building Trades 

Farum Equipment Mechanics 

Indus trial Electricity 

Indus trial Drafting 

Agriculture Production 

Business & Office Edugation 

Total 

1886 

  

15 

    

1886 

  

73 

 



  

VIII. 

The Wilkinson County Board of Education has not sold on abandoned any &chool 
facility, equipment on supplies since the Court Order of November 7, 1969. 

The Woodville Attendance Center has been closed by Onder dated August 5, 1970 
modifying Order of November 7, 1969. The buildings comprising said 4chook 

are being maintained for further use in the event of the netun of the students 

who have abandoned the public school system. 

IX. 

Two members There is not a bi-nacial advisory committee to the school board. 
of the §ive member 4chool board are Negro. 

 



 
 
 
 

 
 

  
 
 

 
 
  
 
 
 

  
  
 
 

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