Draft Order for Joining Parties

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January 1, 1973

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  • Case Files, Milliken Hardbacks. Draft Order for Joining Parties, 1973. 236c1620-54e9-ef11-a730-7c1e5247dfc0. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/aa422e40-c73d-4ffa-906a-e9e7d6eae416/draft-order-for-joining-parties. Accessed July 05, 2025.

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN 

SOUTHERN DIVISION

)RONALD BRADLEY, et al., )
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Plaintiffs, ))
v. )

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WILLIAM G . MILLIKEN, )

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Defendants, )

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and )

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DENISE MAGDOWSKI, )

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Defendants- )
Intervenors, )

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and )

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ALLEN PARK, et al., )

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Defendants- )
Intervenors, )

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and )

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KERRY GREEN, et al., )

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Defendants- )
Intervenors, )

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and )

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WAYNE COUNTY INTERMEDIATE )
SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., )

Added Defendants )
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ORDER JOINING PARTIES

Pursuant to the Orders and Opinions of the United 

States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in this cause, 

and Rules 19 and 21, F.R.Civ.P.,
IT IS ORDERED that the following school districts, their 

boards of education, members of their boards of education, and 
their superintendents are joined as parties in this cause, in 

the first instance in assisting the development of a 
plan of desegregation for the Detroit Public Schools and 
participating in hearings on metropolitan relief for the 
unconstitutional segregation of the Detroit Public Schools 

and, thereaPber, as they may be necessary for implementing 
any interim and/or final plan of desegregation for the Detroit



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Public Schools subsequently ordered:

(a) the Wayne County Intermediate School District, 

the Oakland. County Intermediate School District,

Lakeview Public Schools, Fitzgerald Public Schools,
Fraser Public Schools, Harper Woods School District,

Van Dyke Public Schools, Hamtramck School District,

School District of the City of Troy, Highland Park City 

School District, School District of the City of Birmingham, 
Bloomfield Hills School District, Farmington Public 

School District, Clarenceville School District, West 
Bloomfield School District, Livonia Public School 

District, South Redford School District, Romulus 

Township School District, Inkster School District,
Westwood Community School District, Ecorse Public
School District, Southgate Community School District, 
Riverview Community School District, School District 

of the City of Pontiac, Holly Area Schools, Huron 
Valley Schools, Lake Orion Community School District, 
Rochester Community School, Walled Lake Consolidated 

School District, Avondale School District, Clarkston 

Community Schools, South Lyon Community Schools, Waterford 
School District, Mt. Clemens Community School District, 

Anchor Bay School District, Romeo Community Schools, 
Clintondale Community Schools, L ’anse Creuse Public 
Schools, South Lake Schools, Utica Community Schools,
Armada Area Schools, New Haven Community Schools,

Plymouth Community School District, Huron School 
District, Northville Public School District, Van 
Buren Public School District, Grosse lie Township 
School District, Trenton Public School District;
(b) all other school districts, if any, in the tri-

f lp ] -e a J r G f ld o t  O *“t j  Q jj C i

county area'; (c) the Boards of Education and Members 
of the Boards of Education in each school district 
in the tri-county area; (d) the Superintendents of 
each school district In the tri-county area.



IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the following are substitured
as parties defendant:

1. Charles Wolfe for Norman Drackler as Superintendent 
of the Detroit Public Schools.

2. The present members of the Detroit Board of Education 
for their predecessors.

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