Consent Order for Marion County School District

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August 15, 1973

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Includes Correspondence from Clerk Wadsworth to Clerk Thomas.

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- Education
Topic
- Educational Equity
Matter
- Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
Case
- Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
U.S. state
- Mississippi
Collection
- Case Files
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- 93d6f44f-d167-f011-bec2-7c1e52467ee8

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Case Files, Alexander v. Holmes Hardbacks. Consent Order for Marion County School District, 1973. 93d6f44f-d167-f011-bec2-7c1e52467ee8. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/e635b776-957a-4fcb-9bf1-1a1c3a82eaa1/consent-order-for-marion-county-school-district. Accessed January 07, 2026.

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    +9, States Court of Appeuls 

FIFTH CIRCUIT 

EDWARD W. WADSWORTH OFFICE OF THE CLERK 600 CAMP STREET 
CLERK NEW ORLEANS, LA. 70130 

August 15, 1973 

Mr. Robert C., Thomas, Clerk 
U.S. District Court 
P, O,. Box 7869 
Jackson, Miss. 39205 

U.S.A. v. Hinds County, et al 
CA 3778, et al and 
CA 4075, et al) 
  

Dear Mr. Thomas: 

Enclosed is a certified copy of an order entered by the 
court in the Marion County School case. 

Very truly yours, 

EDWARD W, WADSWORTH, Clerk 

By i itn ed 
Deputy Clerk 
  

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cc and enclosure to: 
Hon, Dan M. Russell, Jr. (P.O. Box 1930, Gulfpart, Miss.39501) 
Mr, Jack Greenberg (10 Columbus Circle, Suite 2030, N.Y., 

N.Y. 10019) 
Mr, David L. Norman (Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., U.S, Department 

of Justice, Civil Rights Div., 
Washington, D.C. 20050) 

Mr. Melvyn Leventhal (538% North Farish St., Jackson, Miss. 
39202) 

Mr. Richard D., Foxworth ( 216 Newsom Bldg., Columbia, Miss, 
39429)  



  

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, 

VS. NO.. 28030 and 28042 

HINDS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD, ET AL, Defendant, 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, 

NO. 2178 (H) 
VS. 

MARION COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, Defendant. 

CONSENT ' ORDER 
  

BY AGREEMENT OF THE PARTIES, through counsel, the 

Court finds that the parties have agreed to a modification of 

the school desegration plan for Marion County previously ordered 

by the Court on August 27, 1970, and the Court is of the opinion 

that the agreed to modifications satisfy the ends of justice 

in this case, and will not adversely affect public school 

desegration. The Court further finds that all modifications 

agreed to by the parties should be approved. 

IT IS, THEREFORE, HEREBY ordered that the desegration 

plan of the Marion County School District of August 27, 1970, 

be modified in the following respects: 

1. The Marion County School District shall be permitted 

to close the Bunker Hill Attendance Center and the Hub Attendance 

Center. The Students assigned to attend the Hub Elementary School 

will be transferred to the Marion County High School. The students 

attending the Bunker Hill Attendance Center, grades 1-6, shall 

be transferred to the Improve Attendance Center and the students 

of Bunker Hill Elementary School, grades 7-8, shall be transferred 

 



  

to the Marion County High School. 

2. The Marion County School District shall be 

permitted to operate the Improve Attendance Center as a 

school for grades 1-6, for all students previously attending the 

Improve and Bunker Hill Schools, and the students in grades 

7-8 ‘previously assigned to the Improve Attendance Center shall 

be transferred to the Marion County High School. 

3. Pursuant to the previous orders of the Court, 

and the modifications herein authorized, the Marion County 

School District, from and after the date hereof, shall be 

authorized to operate the following Attendance Centers for 

the areas and grades shown: 

(a) West Marion: Attendance Center - To 

serve as a school for all students in grades 1-12, living 

in that portion of the Marion County School District lying 

West of the Pearl River. 

(b) Improve Attendance Center - To serve 

as a school for all students in grades 1-6, living in that 

portion of the Marion County School District lying East 

of Pearl River and North of U. S. Highway No. 98. 

(c) Marion County High School - To serve 

as a school for all students in grades 7-12, living in 

that poLELen of the Marion County School District lying 

East of Pearl River, and, in addition, to serve as a 

school for all students in grades 1-6, living in that 

portion of the Marion County School District lying East 

of Pearl River and South of U. S. Highway No. 98. 

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All other provisions of the plan ordered on 

August 27, 1970, shall remain in full force and effect 

 



  

unless specifically modified herein. 

K I BR SO ORDERED AND ADJUDGED on this the ° 15 
  

day of August, A. D., 1973. 

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UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGES 
OF THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR 
THE FIPTH CIRCUIT 

AGREED AND CONSENTED TO: 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

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MARION COUNTY SCHOOL 

  

DISTRICT 

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{ Melvyn? R. Leventhal 
Counsel for Amicus Curiae

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