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 April 18, 2025.
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.rl"r*. *"r:N, wArr, *ALLAS, ADKTNS.?..- t 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, I "- ,'i"rl,{-U f Ll Leslie J. Winner LJW: cfd Enclosure