Correspondence from Watts to Clerk

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Includes Correspondence from Clerk to Counsel.

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- Political Participation
Topic
- Voting Rights
Matter
- Dillard v. Crenshaw County
Case
- Dillard v. Crenshaw County
U.S. state
- Alabama
Collection
- Case Files
Taxonomy
Identifier
- 04af6cad-b7d8-ef11-a730-7c1e527e6da9

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Case Files, Dillard v. Crenshaw County Hardbacks. Correspondence from Watts to Clerk, 1986. 04af6cad-b7d8-ef11-a730-7c1e527e6da9. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/b5891b4c-5cb8-4fde-a665-f5006359b99a/correspondence-from-watts-to-clerk. Accessed December 04, 2025.

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    United Jtutes District Cot 

THOMAS C. CAVER 
CLERK 

Hon. Larry Menefee 
5th Floor Title Building 
300 21st Street, North 
Birmingham, Alabama 35203 

Hon. Terry G. Davis 

Post Office Box 6215 
Montgomery, Al 36106 

Civil Action No. 

John Dillard; et 

Crenshaw County, 

Dear Sirs: 

MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA 

OFFICE OF THE CLERK 

Post OFFICE Box 711 

MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA 36101 

October 6, 1986 

Hon. Deborah Fins 

Hon. Julius L. Chambers 

NAACP Legal Defense Fund 

99 Hudson Street 

16th Floor 

New York, New York 

Hon. Jack Floyd 

816 Chestnut Street 

Gadsden, Alabama 

85-T-1332-N 

al v. 

Alabama, etc.; et al. 

10013 

TELEPHONE (208) 832-7308 

FTS 534-7308 

35999-2701 

The attached letter dated October 1, 1986, from the Alabama New South 
Coalition, Inc., filed in this office on October 3, 1986, as an objection to 
the Etowah County proposed compromise and settlement in the above-styled cause 
is forwarded to -you per Judge Thompson's instruction. 

/snc 

Attachment 

Sincerely, 

THOMAS C. CAVER, CLERK 

ye 2 ert le” 

By: ; oil 

Deputy Clerk 

 



FO NEW SOUTH con iri nc, 
RECEIVED: CHAPTER 

. «. Box 1624 

  

198 OCT gas B32 AL 35901 FILED 

THA E CAvER, CLERK 
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S. DISTRICY COURT 
| 

MIDDLE DIgEISHEALY, 1986 0c 3 986 

THOMAS C. CAVER, CLER: 

BY orn DEPUTY CLERK 

Mr. Thomas C. Caver 
Clerk of the United States 
District Court 
Middle District of Alabama 
P.O. Box 711 

Montgomery, Alabama 36101 

RE: John Dillard, el. als., Plantiffs 
i VS 

Crenshaw County, Alabama, et. Als., Defendants 

Case No. 85-T1332-N 

Dear Mr. Caver: 

We are requesting that boundary lines be extended In 

District 5S to Include twenty more familles, of which, eleven 
(11> are black and nine (9) are white. The present boundary 
lines In District 5, as shown on page 4, are along the 
center of Meighan Boulevard or U.S. Highway 431, to the 

point which intersects with Florida Avenue, thence runs in a 
southwesterly direction along the center line of Florida 

Avenue to the point which intersects with Keeling Bend Road; 
thence runs In a southeasterly direction along the center of 
Keel lng Bend Road to the point which intersects with 
Margaret Street. 

We are asking that the boundary lines be changed to run 
along the center of Meighan Boulevard or U.S. Highway 431 to 

the point which intersects with Florida Avenue, thence run 
in a southwesterly direction along the center line of 
Florida Avenue to the point which intersects that of New 

York Avenue, thence run in a southeasterly direction along 
the center of New York Avenue with Keeling Bend Road; thence 
run in a southeasterly direction along the center of Keeling 
Bend Road to the polaL. which intersects with Margaret 
Street. 

 



  

This change would enhance the minority representation in 
District 5 more than as presently structured. This change 
would add nine (9) white families consisting of seventeen 
(17) voters and eleven (11) black families consisting of 
twenty-four (24) voters. 

I am most appreciative of your consideration of this 
request. 

Slncerely yours, 

Chup lit 
Roger Watts, President 

Alabama New South Coalition

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