Memorandum from Southern Regional Counsel to North Carolina Reapportionment Group

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March 8, 1982

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LDF Attorneys
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- 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
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- 681d75a4-de92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873

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Case Files, Thornburg v. Gingles Working Files - Guinier. Memorandum from Southern Regional Counsel to North Carolina Reapportionment Group, 1982. 681d75a4-de92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/a03ba47c-ca37-4553-ac7c-02491864bc78/memorandum-from-southern-regional-counsel-to-north-carolina-reapportionment-group. Accessed July 17, 2025.

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MEMORANDUM
TO: North Carolina Reapportionment Group
FROM: Southern Regional Council DATE: March 8, 1982
RE: Review of SRC Files on themes of racial discrimination in

North Carolina

The work now completed is based on an examination of
publications that are at hand from the late 1940's through the
1970's, although not many from 1970-1976 are relevant to our purposes.
We also have examined news clip files from 1954-1966 in three areas,
school desegregation, suffrage, and politics. Because the politics
files for the mid-sixties period are very difficult to use, only part
of those folders were skimmed; that is, they were not examined thorough-
ly at all. The completed work numbers about 45 pages double-spaced;
about 30 pages of this is quick summary and excerpts from news clips
and publications, in chronology or incident-by-incident form; that is,
it's not written as narrative.

Here is an outline of the way in which the work is organized
for now:

I. PATTERNS OF STATE PARTICIPATION IN RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
(14-15 pages)
1. The State's Purpose
2. N.C. Involvement on Racial Discrimination 1954-1970
3. Patterns of Resistance in North Carolina

II. CHRONOLOGY OF STATE ACTIONS AND INACTIONS, 1954-1972
. School Desegregation

Voting Rights and Political Participation
Other

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III. THE MOTIVES OF TOKENISM AND RELATED STRATEGIES

IV. DISCRIMINATORY APPLICATION AND DISCRIMINATORY NATURE OF
STATE POLICY

V. UTTERANCES OF STATE OFFICIALS IN SUPPORT OF RESISTANCE
VI. THE HOOD OF THE STATE
VII. THE BOTTOM LINE: INDICES OF RELATIVE PROGRESS

VIII. Additional Sources
X X X

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