Report on the Wilkinson County Board of Education

    WATSON, WILKERSON & WALSH 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 
RICHARD T. WATSON AREA CODE 60Q1 

JAMES E. WILKERSON, JR: i WOODVILLE, MISS. TELEPHONE 888-432| 

DONALD E.WALSH ZIP CODE 39669 

November 30, 1971 

Mr. Edward WwW. Wadsworth, 

United States Clerk, 

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, 

400 Royal Street, 

New Orleans, Louisiana. 70130 

Re: United States of America vs. 

Wilkinson County Board of Education 
  

Dear Mr. Wadsworth: 

Please find enclosed herewith original and three copies 

of Report required to be filed in the captioned cause. Please 

see that the enclosed Reports are filed. 

Sincerely yours, 
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Copies To: 

Counsel of Record  



NT 1 07 RE TERA     
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT 

  

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) 

) 
Appellants, ) 

) 
vs. ) 

WILKINSON COUNTY BOARD OF ) 

EDUCATION ) 
) Nos, 28030-28042 

Appellee ) 

) 

REPORT 

Comes now the Board of Education of Wilkinson County, 

Mississippi, and, in accord with the Order of this Honorable 

Court, respectfully submits herewith its report. 

Respectfully submitted, 

WILKINSON) COONTY BOARD OF EDUCATION 

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By: Yi eX) yA / i : 

Attorney for) Appellee 
  

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(a) 

  

There are 2517 students enrolled in 

Of this number 2487 are Negro; thirty 

  

  

School White Negro 

William Winans Attendance Center 0 331 

Finch Attendance Center 2 "356 

Wilkinson County Training School 3 1800 

Vocational Center 25 * 144 

mello 36 “3487 

* These students (144) are included in the totals for William Winans 

Attendance Center and Wilkinson County Training School. 

William Winans Attendance Center 

Centreville, Mississippi 39631 

Grade White Negro Total 
7 0 86 86 

8 0 75 75 

9 0 46 46 

10 0 ax 41 

11 Ser 41 41 

12 0. 42 42 
Total 0 331 "331 

Finch Attendance Center 
Centreville, Mississippi 39631 

  Grade White Negro Total 

1 0 52 52 

2 2 66 68 

3 0 57 57 

4 0 57 57 

Total hn 356 358



    

Wilkinson County Training Sch 

Woodville, 3s] 39 

  

Grade White JIC lrotal 

Spec. Ed. 

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8 0 180 180 

9 0 192 192 

11 0 116 116 

Total 3 1813 1816 

Vocational Center 

Woodville, Mississippi 39669 

Grade White Negro Total 

Auto Mechanics 6 33 39 

Metal Trades 2 15 17 

Building Trades 0 34 34 

Farm Equipment Mechanics , 21 23 

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Industrial Drafting 5 7 12 

Agriculture Production 0 14 14 

Business & Office Education LR ii 16 ole 
Total 25 144 169 

  

 



    

(a) There are 150 full time teachers 1 the schools of Wilkinson County. 

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Ia} ~~} HE Ta NI ey Tig $= =~ 7} (b) School vhite legro Total 

William Winans Attendance Cente p 18 18% 

Finch Attendance Center ) 18% 18% 

Wilkinson County Training School ] 104 105 

  

  

Vocational Center Lez 8 

Total 8% 150% 

(c) One White part-time Mathematics Supervisor is employed by the school 

district. 

One teacher, who is White, is employed full time to instruct one-half 

day each at two schools. 

(d) The part-time Mathematics Supervisor works with the Mathematics teachers 

of William Winans, Finch and Wilkinson County Training School holding 

teachers' workshops for the various grade level 

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One full time White instructor teaches one-half day each at William 

Winans Attendance Center and Wilkinson County Training School. 

No requests have been made under the majority to minority transfer provision 

of the Order of November 7, 1969. 

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No inter-district transfers have been requested or granted. 

The three White students who attend Will i 

transported daily on the same bus as are the Negro students who reside on 

the same road. 

  

The two White students who attend Finch Attendance Center walk to school as 

they reside too close to the school to be entitled to transportation at 

public expense. The twenty-five White students who attend the Vocational Center 

are not entitled to public transportation, either. 

 



  

All faci) 
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operated on a aesegrt iat 

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The Wilkinson County Board of Education has not sold or abandoned any school 

  

facility, equipment or supplies since the Court Order or vember 7, 1969. 

The Woodville Attendance Center was c.io! 

modifying Order of November 7, 1969. 

are being maintained for further 

dated August 5, 1970, 

  

rrising said school 

  

in the event of the return of the students 

  

There is not a bi-racial advisory committee to the school board. Two members 

of the five member school board are Negro. 

 



  

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Honorable 

Attorney, Department 

ashington, D. C. 

Honorable Robert 

United States 

Southern 

Federal Building 

Jackson, Mississi 

Honorable Daniel F. 

Attorney, Education 

Department of 

Washington, D. C,. 

Honorable Melvyn R. 

538 1/2 North 
Jackson, 

    

District of 

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20530 

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Leventhal 

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Honorable Jack Greenberg 
10 Columbus Circle, 

New York, New York 

Suite 

10019 

2030 

  
  

Attorney 

Wilkinson 

Woodville,