Order to Return Textbooks

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March 7, 1975

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  • Case Files, Norwood v. Harrison - Hardbacks. Order to Return Textbooks, 1975. 531677d6-722e-f111-88b4-7c1e526962fd. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/e52c72c4-75aa-47f8-b54e-9ef38afadf76/order-to-return-textbooks. Accessed July 18, 2026.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI 

WESTERN DIVISION 

  

DELORES NORWOOD, et al., 

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ORDER 

Upon the Stipulation entered into by the Presbyterian 

Day School of Cleveland and plaintiffs to this action, it is 

hereby ORDERED: 

1. Presbyterian Day School shall return to the Mississippi 

Textbook Purchasing Board, or its designated agent (s), all 

textbooks presently held by the school or entrusted to the 

students enrolled therein as determined by defendants' current 

inventory list, effective at the end of the current school year in May, 197 

2. Plaintiffs' objections to textbook aid for the 

Presbyterian Day School of Cleveland are hereby dismissed, 

without prejudice in the event the said school again applies 

to the Mississippi State Textbook Board for textbook assistance. 

3. Any future application for textbook assistance made 

by the subject school to the Mississippi Textbook Board shall 

not result in the distribution cf textbooks to the school without 

prior approval of the Court. Norwood v. Harrison, 382 F.Supp. 
  

92), 935 {N.D. Miss. 1974). 

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ORDERED this 7= day of Morell 1975. 

LV tiass cl fend 
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

  

  

AGREED TO IN FORM 
& CONTENT 

  

  

MELVYN R. LEVENTHAL 

FRED L. BANKS, Jr. 

538% North Farish Street 
Jackson, Mississippi 39202 

  

L. ELLIS BRIFFITH 

P.O. Box 159 
Cleveland, Mississippi 38732 [||30fd6db9-d0bb-406a-b3b3-ddb8585997b9||] 

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