Order Modifying Hinds County Desegregation Plan

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI 

JACKSON DIVISION 

    

  

      

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) 
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PLAINTIFF ) 

Vv ) CIVIL ACTION NUMBER 4075 (J) 

HINDS COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, ) 
ET AL, ) ——— 

) SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI 

DEFENDANTS FILED 

ROBERT C. ora. 
BY 

ORDER a     

Came on this day for hearing the request of the Hinds 

County Board of Education that the desegregation plan for the 

Hinds County School System, ordered into effect by the Fifth 

Circuit Court of Appeals on November 7, 1969, in Civil Action 

Number 28042, be modified; and 

It appearing unto the Court, and the Court finding 

that proper notice has been given to attorneys for the plaintiff 

and attorneys for the intervenor, and that no objection to the 

proposed modification has been filed with the Court; and 

It further appearing unto the Court, and the Court 

finding that rather than approve the proposed modification 

in toto that the Court should approve specific changes in 

designated attendance centers; and 

It further appearing unto the Court, and the Court 

finding, based upon representations of the attorneys for the 

Hinds County Board of Education, chat only changes in the 

grades to be assigned to certain designated attendance centers 

are contemplated at this time; 

IT IS, THEREFORE, ordered and adjudged, subject to 

 



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approval of this order by the Fifth Circul t Court of Appeals, 

that the plan of desegregation hereinabove referenced for the 

Hinds County School District be, and the same is hereby modified 

to the following extent, and to the following extent only: 

The Hinds County Board of Education shall have the 

authority to change the grades served by the Edwards Consolidated 

School from grades 1 and 2 to grades 1, 2 and 3; and to change 

the grades served by the Edwards Junior High School from grades 3 

through 9 to grades 4 through 9. 

It is specifically ordered that this modification 

does not authorize any, change in the lines of any of the zones 

heretofore set forth in the above referenced desegregation 

plan, nor does it authorize the transfer of any pupils from 

one of said zones to another zone. Except as herein specific- 

ally modified, said desegregation plan remains in full force 

and effect. 

  

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Approved as to form: 

  
ClE 7, Porton Yn ol Jor Gio 

Attorney for Unigpd States of America