Telegram from Porter to Judge Roth

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Impact area
- Education
Topic
- School Desegregation
Matter
- Milliken v. Bradley
Case
- Milliken v. Bradley
U.S. state
- Michigan
Collection
- Case Files
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- 7315aa3d-53e9-ef11-a730-7c1e5247dfc0

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Case Files, Milliken Hardbacks. Telegram from Porter to Judge Roth, 1972. 7315aa3d-53e9-ef11-a730-7c1e5247dfc0. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/eada60ba-a610-4564-bf64-2e8e2eb2660a/telegram-from-porter-to-judge-roth. Accessed December 04, 2025.

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Within 20 days of June 14, 1972, the nine-member panel appointed by Judge Stephen J. 
Roth shall make recommendations for the acquisition of additional transportation
equipment needed for an interim plan. . . . .  •, r 
As State Superintendent of Public Instruction, I am initiating the first meeting 
of the panel in order that it may have optimum time allotted to meet the deadlines

i r r ^ m b e r ' o f ' t h e  J u d g ^ R o t h ^ p o i n t e d  p a n e l for the p la n n in g
of Detroit, you are, therefore, asked to be present for the panel s first meeting a 
9 a.m. on Wednesday, June 21, 1972, at the State Board of Education Conference 
Room, 5th Floor, Michigan National Tower at the corner of Allegan and Capitol

Th<z Superintendent of Public Instruction will meet with the panelists to discuss 
the various assignments ordered to implement Judge Roth's "Ruling on Desegregation 
Area and Order for Development of Plan of Desegregation.

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cc: Judge Stephen J. Roth
Litigants

John W. Porter
Superintendent of Public Instruction 
Michigan Department of Education

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Members of the Panel Appointed by Judge Stephen J. Roth

Harold Wagner, Supervisor
Transportation Unit
State Department of Education
P. 0. Box 420
Lansing, Michigan 48902

Merle Henrickson 
Detroit Board of Education 
5057 Woodward Avenue 
Detroit, Michigan 48202

Aubrey McCutcheon 
Detroit Board of Education 
5057 Woodward Avenue 
Detroit, Michigan 48202

Freeman Flynn
Detroit Board of Education 
5057 Woodward Avenue 
Detroit, Michigan 48202

Gordon Foster, Director 
Florida School Desegregation 

Consulting Center 
University of Miami 
School od Education 
Coral Gables, Florida 33124

Richard Morshead 
University of Michigan 
Dearborn Campus 
4901 Evergreen Road 
Dearborn, Michigan 48128

Rita Scott
Director, Education Division 
Civil Rights Commission 
900 Cadillac Square Building 
Detroit, Michigan 48226

Designee of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction 

Designee of the newly intervening defendants - Not named

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