Motion to Consolidate

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Impact area
- Education
Topic
- Educational Equity
LDF Attorneys
Cooperating Attorneys
Organization
- LDF
Matter
- Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
Case
- Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
U.S. state
- Mississippi
Collection
- Case Files
Taxonomy
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- bc3b7da9-d167-f011-bec2-6045bdffa665

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Case Files, Alexander v. Holmes Hardbacks. Motion to Consolidate, 1968. bc3b7da9-d167-f011-bec2-6045bdffa665. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/d5e78d68-6b06-44c9-906e-5bb114ad5292/motion-to-consolidate. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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    IN THE UNITED STATES COURT 

POR THR PIPTH CIRCUIT 

  

“NO.   

  

IOUISIANA: 

LAWRENCE HALL, et al., 

: Appellants, 

UNITED STATES, 

Appellants, 

Ve 

et 

y 

ST. HELENA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD, 

Appellees. 

al., 

  

JAMES WILLIAMS, JR., et al., 

Appellants, 

UNITED STATES, 

Appellants, 

a 

IBERVILLE PARISH .SCHOOIL BOARD, 

Appellees. 

  

' YVONNE MARIE BOYD, et al., 

Appellants, 

UNITED STATES, 

Appellants, 

Ve 

THE POINTE COUPEE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD, et 

Appellees. 

  

et al., 

alt., 

  
 



      

TERRY LYNN DUNN, et al., 

Appellants, 

UNITED STATES, 

Appellants, 

Ve 

LIVINGSTON PARISH SCHOOL BOARD, et al., 

Appellees. 

  

WELTON J. CHARLES, JR., et al., 

Appellants, 

Li UNITED STATES, 

Yh | Appellants, 

| i ci ® 

ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD, and GORDON WEBB 

Appellees. 

  

DONALD JEROME THOMAS, et al., 

Appellants, 

Vi | 

WEST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOI BOARD, et al., 

Appellees. 

  

MISSISSIPPI: ‘ 

JOAN ANDERSON, et al., 

Appellants, 

UNITED STATES, 

Appellants, 

VV. 

THE CANTON MUNICIPAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., 
and THE MADISON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., 

Appellees. 

  

  
 



      

Appellants, 

Ne 

HOLMES COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., 

Appellees. 

    a = ee me mee   

ROY LEE HARRIS, et al., 

"Appellants, 

y. 

THE YAZOO COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., 

Appellees. 

  

JOHN BARNHARDT, et al., ” 

Appellants, 

Ve. 

MERIDIAN SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., 

Appellees. 

  

JEREMIAH BLACKWELL, JR., et al., 

Appellants, 

v, | 

ISSAQUENA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., 

$ Appellees. 

  

DIAN HUDSON, et al., 

Appellants, 

UNITED STATES, 

Appellants, 

Va. 

LEAKE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD, et al., 

Appellees. 

  

  
 



  

CHARLES KILLINGSWORTH, et al., 

Appellants, 

Ve 

THE ENTERPRISE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL, DISTRICT, et al., 

THE QUITMAN CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., 

and THE CLARK COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., 

Appellees. 

  
—— BE 
  

MOTION TO CONSOLIDATE 

Appellants, for the reasons contained herein, hereby 

move this Court for =n order consolidating for the purposes of 

this appari; the above-captioned cases. 

L 

1. 

Appellants in each of these cases are seeking review 

of essentially identical refusals of istrict court judges to 

hold hearings or to require appellee boards to come forward with 

plans to implement the decisions of the United States Supreme 

Court, prior to the commencement of the 1968-69 school term, 

thereby denying plaintiffs' motions for further relief insofar 

as they call for the abandonment of the appellees' freedom of 

choice plans of desegregation 20 forthe institution of 

geographical zones or pairing of schools for the 1968-69 school 

" 3 

term. 

IZ. 

Appellants have shown in their motion for summary 

reversal in these cases that each of the appellee school boards 

has failed to make adequate progress utilizing the free choice 

system of desegregation and each of them has failed to come 

forward with a new plan or with any evidence which would show 

that free choice would be equally or more effective in 

eliminating the dual school systems than geographic zoning or 

pairing. These cases present identical issues with regard to       
 



      

the determination of the school boards' obligations in light of 

United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education, 372 F.2d 847     

(5th Cir., 1966), affirmed, 380 F.2d 385 (5th Cir., 1967), cert. 

denied 389 U.S. 840; Green v. County School Board of New Kent   

County, ¥Ya.,. 0.8, y 20 Led, 24 716 (May 27, 1968); 

Raney v. The Board of Education of the Gould School District,   

U.S. +20 L.ad. 234 727 (May 27, 1968); Monroe v. Board   

of Commissioners of the City of Jackson, Tenn., U.S. 20       

L.ed. 2d 733 (May 27, 1968). Each case therefore, presents 

substantially the same legal questions. 

WHEREFORE, plaintiffs pray that this Court enter an 

order consolidating the above cases. 

7 

Respectfully submitted, 

  
FRANKLIN E. WHITE 

I0UIS BR, LUCAS 

JACK GREENBERG 
10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 1001¢° 

A. P., TUREAUD 

A. M. TRUDEAU, JR. 

1821 Orleans Avenue 

New Orleans, Louisiana 

REUBEN V. ANDERSON 

538% North Farish Street 
Jackson, Mississippi 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

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