Letter to Lani Guinier and Steve Suitts

Working File
April 4, 1983

Letter to Lani Guinier and Steve Suitts preview

Cite this item

  • 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.

    Copied!

    .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

Copyright notice

© NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

This collection and the tools to navigate it (the “Collection”) are available to the public for general educational and research purposes, as well as to preserve and contextualize the history of the content and materials it contains (the “Materials”). Like other archival collections, such as those found in libraries, LDF owns the physical source Materials that have been digitized for the Collection; however, LDF does not own the underlying copyright or other rights in all items and there are limits on how you can use the Materials. By accessing and using the Material, you acknowledge your agreement to the Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Materials.


Additional info

To the extent that LDF includes information about the Materials’ origins or ownership or provides summaries or transcripts of original source Materials, LDF does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of such information, transcripts or summaries, and shall not be responsible for any inaccuracies.

Return to top