Order for Columbia Municipal Separate School District

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November 8, 1971

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Includes Correspondence from Clerk Brady to Clerk Thomas.

Impact area
- Education
Topic
- Educational Equity
LDF Attorneys
Cooperating Attorneys
Organization
- LDF
Matter
- Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
Case
- Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
U.S. state
- Mississippi
Collection
- Case Files
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Identifier
- 6d448aa4-d367-f011-bec2-7c1e52467ee8

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Case Files, Alexander v. Holmes Hardbacks. Order for Columbia Municipal Separate School District, 1971. 6d448aa4-d367-f011-bec2-7c1e52467ee8. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/b579c20b-3909-4a7b-adda-ed712af151b1/order-for-columbia-municipal-separate-school-district. Accessed October 05, 2025.

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    United States Court of Appeals 

FIFTH CIRCUIT 

EDWARD W. WADSWORTH OFFICE OF THE CLERK ROOM 408-400 ROYAL. ST. 
NEW ORLEANS, LA. 70130 

CLERR 

‘November 8, 1971 

Mr. Robert C. Thomas, Clerk 

U. S. District Court 
P. 0, Box 769 
Jackson, Mississippi 39205 

Nos. 28030 & 28042 - U.S.A. vs. Hinds County, 
et al 
  

Dear Mr. Thomas: 

Enclosed is a certified copy of an order entered by the 

court in the Columbia Municipal Separate School District 

case, 

Very truly yours, 

EDWARD W. WADSWORTH, Clerk 

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enclosure 

cc and enclosure to: 
Hon, Dan M, Russell, Jr. 
Mr. Jack Greenberg 
Mr, David L. Norman 
Mr. Melvyn Leventhal 
Mr. Maurice Dantin- 
Mr, Joseph D, Rich  



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FILED 

  

NOV 8 1971 

EDWARD W. WADSWORTH 
CLERK 

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT 

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LA ie the Columbia Municipal Separate School District and the 

United States of America, Department of Justice, to alter 

the desegregation plan heretofore ordered in this matter 

by changing the Eighth Grade of the Columbia Municipal 

Separate School District from the Columbia Junior~-Senior 

High School to Jefferson Middle School, and the Court 

| having heard and considered same, finds that said altera- 

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tion should be and the same hereby is approved and granted; 

It is, therefore, hereby ordered that the pupil 

assignment schedule of the desegregation plan for the | 

Columbia Municipal Separate School District heretofore | 

ordered in this cause be altered by changing the Eighth | 

Grade of the Columbia Municipal Separate School District 

from the Columbia Junior-Senior High School to Jefferson 

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THIS the 8 th day of November, 1971. 

/s/ GRIFFIN B, BELL 
  

U. S.CIRCUIT JUDGE 

/s/ HOMER THORNBERRY 
  

U. S.CIRCUIT JUDGE 

LEWIS R, MORGA 
U. S.CIRCUIT JUDGE 

This ORDER is approved 
and consented to: 

Seaenl? A. Frc 

Attorney for United States 

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Attorney for Columbia Municipal 

Bepanats Sc ool System 

a 2.00 
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Order for Columbia Municipal Separate School District

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