Letter to Lani Guinier and Steve Suitts
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April 4, 1983
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Case Files, Thornburg v. Gingles Hardbacks, Briefs, and Trial Transcript. Letter to Lani Guinier and Steve Suitts, 1983. 3f242444-d392-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/cccfffbd-9442-42df-b283-9cdcd79398c1/letter-to-lani-guinier-and-steve-suitts. Accessed December 05, 2025.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW
SUITE 73O EAST INDEPENDENCE PLAZA
95I SOUTH INDEPENDENCE BOULEVARD
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA 28202
TELEPHONE 1704) 375-e461
April 6, 1983
Ms. Lani Guinier
Legal Defense Fund
10 Coh:mbus Circle
Suite 2030
New York, New York 10019
Mr. Steve Suitts
Southern Regiona1 Council
161 Spring Street
8th Floor
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Dear Lani and Steve:
Please find enclosed a letter from a political scientist
aL Winston Salem State with whom I spoke about this case.
In addition to what he includes in the letter he is will-
ing to say that he thinks the L982 election resul-ts are
not the result of a breakdown in bl-oc voting but the
resul-t of unusually high black turnout and unusuall-y
low white turnout. Thus, in a year in which turnout
was higher, white turnout would go up but black turnout
could noE go up and therefore the results would be
different.
Let me know whaE you think about this.
JULIUS LEVONNE CHAMBERS
JAMES E FERGUSON II
MELVIN L WATT
JONATHAN WALLAS
KARL ADKINS
JAMES C FULLER. JR
YVONNE MIMS EVANS
JOHN W GRESHAM
GILDA F GLAZER
LESLIE J WINNER
JOHN T NOCKLEBY'
.oF D,c, BAR ALSO
Sincerely,
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Leslie J. Winner
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