Amite County Brief in Support of and Motion to Dismiss
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Dear Teddy:
Enclosed for your review and comments are copies of
the Amite County School District's Motion To Dismiss and
Brief In Support Of Motion To Dismiss.
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Dear Judge Lee:
ELIZABETH HULEN
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THOMAS H. WATKINS
WM. E. SUDDATH. JR.
OF COUNSEL
(601) 248-6470
Enclosed herewith with regard to the above-referenced
matter, please find a copy of the Defendants' Motion to
Dismiss and the original and one copy of a brief in support
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI
JACKSON DIVISION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, by
WILLIAM FRENCH SMITH, Attorney
General of the United States,
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND
EDUCATIONAL FUND PLAINTIFFS
VS. CIVIL ACTION NO. 3983
AMITE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT;
MAURICE E. FOREMAN, Superintendent
of Education, Amite County School
District; J. H., SMITH, L. W. GRAVES,
DOUGLAS STEWART, CURTIS BISHOP, and
REBECCA ROBERTSON, Trustees, Amite
County School District DEFENDANTS
MOTION TO DISMISS
The defendants in the above-styled and numbered cause,
by and through their attorneys, hereby move the Court to
dissolve all outstanding court orders under which the Amite
County School District has been operating and to dismiss and
terminate this cause, and in support thereof would show unto
the Court the following:
1.
On or about August 9, 1966, United States of America
filed suit against the defendants seeking the disestablishment
of a racially segregated school system. Pursuant to orders
of this Court and orders of the United States Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Amite County School
District has maintained a unitary school system for over
sixteen (16) years and, with respect to student assignment,
seven (7) years. The orders in effect are United States v.
Hinds County School Board (United States v. Amite County
School District), 423 F.24 1264 (5th Cir. 1969), as modified
by order of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals dated December
10, 1969; United States v, Amite County School District, 560
F.24 (5h Car. 1977); and order of this Court entered October
19,:1977.
2.
Since January 2, 1978, the Amite County School District
has operated a unitary school system and has complied with
all desegregation directives and orders of the United States
District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi and
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The
Anite County School District has submitted semi-annual
reports to this Court and to Amicus Curiae.
3.
The Amite County School District has achieved a unitary
school system with respect to faculty, staff, transportation,
extracurricular activities, facilities and composition of
student body. It is in the best interests of the students
and employees of the Amite County School District, as well
as other citizens within the district, that this action be
dismissed and finally terminated on the docket of this
Court.
WHEREFORE, the defendants move the Court to enter an
order adjudicating the following:
1. That the Amite County School District has operated
as a unitary school system since 1978;
2. The Amite County School District has complied with
all desegregation directives and orders of the United States
District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi and
of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit;
3. All outstanding decrees and orders are dissolved;
4, Civil Action No. 3983(L) shall be finally dismissed
and terminated on the docket of this Court; and
5. For such other, further relief as this Court may
deem proper under the circumstances.
This the QW day Of February, 1985.
| Respectfully submitted,
AMITE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT;
MAURICE E. FOREMAN, Superintendent
of Education, Amite County School
District; J. B. SMITH, L. W. GRAVES,
DOUGLAS STEWART, CURTIS BISHOP, and
REBECCA ROBERTSON, Trustees, Amite
County School District
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‘Attorney for Defendgrits °
T. FP, Badon
Post Office Box 353
Liberty, Mississippi- 39645
Telephone (601)657-8054
Robert A. Miller
WATKINS & EAGER
Post Office Box 650
Jackson, Mississippi 39205
Telephone (601)948-6470
NOTICE OF HEARING
TO: Fred L. Banks, Jr., Esquire
Banks and Nichols
Post Office Drawer 290
Jackson, Mississippi 39205
Nathaniel Douglas, Chief Educational
Opportunities Litigation Section,
Civil Rights Section
United States Department of Justice
Washington, D.C. 20530
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the defendants in the above
styled and numbered cause, by and through their attorneys, will
call on for hearing their Motion to Dismiss before the Honorable
Tom S. Lee, United States District Judge, in his chambers in
Jackson, Mississippi, as soon as counsel may be heard.
This the 7 aay of Februar 1335,
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Robert A. Miller
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I, Robert A. Miller, one of the attorneys for the defendants
in the above styled and numbered cause, do hereby certify that
I have this day forwarded a true and correct copy of the above
and foregoing Motion to Dismiss and notice thereof to Fred L.
Banks, Jr., Esquire, Banks and Nichols, Post Office Drawer 290,
Jackson, Mississippi 39205; and to Nathaniel Douglas, Chief
Educational Opportunities Litigation Section, Civil Rights
Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
20530.
This the ik day of February, 1985.
VA ey
Robert A. Miller
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI
JACKSON DIVISION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, by
WILLIAM FRENCH SMITH, Attorney
General of the United States,
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND
EDUCATIONAL FUND PLAINTIFFS
VS. CIVIL ACTION NO. 3983
AMITE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT;
MAURICE E. FOREMAN, Superintendent
of Education, Amite County School
District; J. H. SMITH, L. W. GRAVES,
DOUGLAS STEWART, CURTIS BISHOP, and
REBECCA ROBERTSON, Trustees, Amite
County School District DEFENDANTS
BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF
MOTION TO DISMISS
By the instant motion, the Amite County School District,
the Amite County School Superintendent, and the Amite County
School District Board of Trustees are seeking to dissolve
all outstanding injunctive orders and to dismiss the above-
referenced case on the grounds that the school district has
achieved unitary status and has operated continuously for
over seven (7) years without a court action. Proof in the
form of semi-annual reports submitted by the District to the
Court and in the form of verbal testimony by the Superintendent
and possibly others will show that, with respect to faculty,
staff, transportion, extracurricular activities, facilities
and composition of student body, the District has achieved a
unitary school system. See Green v. County School Board of
New Rent County, Virginia, 391 0.5. 430, 88 S. Ct. 1689, 20
L.Ed.2d 716 (1968); Singleton v. Jackson Mun. Separate School
Dist., 541 PF. Supp. 904, 906 (S.D. Miss. 1981).
At the present time, the Amite County School District
1s operating under the direct order of the United States
District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi,
dated October 19, 1977. This order, entered by Judge Russell,
approved the Amite County School District's desegregation
plan that was devised by the school district pursuant to
Department of Health, Education and Welfare recommendations
submitted to the Court in August, 1969. The District Court's
order commanded that the plan become effective on or before
November 1, 1977. There have been no further orders of the
District Court in this case. Since the entry of this order,
the District has submitted semiannual reports due on October
15 and April 15 of each school year. Since the October 19,
1977, District Court order, there has been no further judicial
activity other than the Fifth Circuit's terminating the
requirement for submitting the semi-annual reports to the
appellate court without affecting the reporting requirements
to the District Court and others.
The desegregation plan for the Amite County School
District, as implemented by the District Court order of
October 19, 1977, is virtually identical to other plans
enacted by court order throughout the State of Mississippi—~__
and other southern states. The plan is frequently referred
to by courts within the Fifth Circuit as "Singleton" plan
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In the Fifth Circuit case of Singleton A. Jackson Mun. Separate
Nn Ray
School Dist., 418% F.24:1211, (5th Cir. 1969) (en banc),
cert, denied, 396 U.S. 1032, 90 Sup. Ct. 612, 24 1,.E4.24 530
(1970), the Fifth Circuit mandated the implementation of a
desegregation plan devised by the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare in sixteen school districts in Missis-
sippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida. The companion
opinion United States v. Hinds County School Board, (United
States v. Amite County School District), 423 F.2d 1264, (5th
Cir. 1969), ordered the Singleton-type plan implemented in
Amite County and in various other school districts. Compliance
was mandated by December 31, 1969. Except for the pupil
assignment portion of the plan, the Amite County School
District has operated under the Singleton-type plan since
December 31, 1969. For approximately seven years, the Amite
County School District, with court approval, assigned pupils
on the basis of sex. This changed when, on September 21,
1977, the Fifth Circuit required the Amite County School
Board to cease student assignment by sex in the case of
United States v. Amite County School District, 560 F.2d 619
(5th Cir. 1977). Therefore, with regard to all areas except
student assignment, the Amite County School District has
operated under the Singleton-type plan for the last fourteen
years and, with regard to student assignment, for the last
seven years.
For the Court's convenience, a synopsis of the litigation
is attached to this brief as Appendix I. Significantly, the
Court file shows no action whatsoever by the plaintiffs or
by Amicus Curiea for over seven years.
The semi-annual reports filed in the Court file amply
demonstrate that the faculty, transportion, facilities and
student body composition are unitary. The Amite County
School District operates four schools, Gloster Elementary
School, Gloster High School, Liberty Elementary School and
Liberty High School. By way of background, the 1980 census
for Amite County reflected a total of 6996 white residents,
6365 black residents and 110 other residents, the percentages
being 52, 47 and 1, respectively. The 1980 census also
reflected that, for the age group 6 through 19, inclusive,
there were 1433 white residents, 2129 black residents and 31
other, with the percentages being 40, 59 and 1, respectively.
The 1980 census further reflected that, for the age ‘group 20
through 60, inclusive, there were 3794 white residents, 25679
black residents and 50 other, the percentages being 58, 41
and 1, respectively. A copy of the relevant portion of the
1980 Census of Population published by the U. S. Department
of Commerce is attached as Appendix II.
The Mississippl Research and Development Center's 1985
census projection reflects a total of 7059 white and 6142
non-white residents, the percentage being 53 and 47, res-
pectively. The same projection shows that for the age group
5 through 19, inclusive, there are 1528 white residents and
1911 non-white residents, the percentages being 44 and 56,
respectively. The 1985 census projection also shows that,
for the age group 20 through 64, inclusive, there are 3867
white residents, 2719 non-white residents, the percentages
being 59 and 41, respectively. A copy of the relevant
portions of the Mississippi Research and Development Center's
County Population Projections is attached hereto as Appendix
1X1.
Using the above-quoted census figures as a reference,
this Court can readily understand that the Amite County
School District has achieved unitary status with respect to
pupil assignment, faculty composition, staff composition,
facilities, and transportion. With regard to employees and
staff, the Amite County School District is prepared to show
this Court that there are presently 249 employees and staff
other than faculty members in the Amite County School District.
Of these employees and staff, 183 are black and 66 are
white, the percentages being 74 and 26. The District is
further prepared to show the complete unitary status of
extracurricular activities. Through use of the semi-annual
reports filed in the Court file, the District is prepared to
show complete desegregation with regard to faculty, transpor-
tion, facilities and student body composition.
For example, the First Term 1978-79 School Year Semi-
Annual Report shows that the District's faculty was composed
of 127 black teachers and 55 white teachers, the percentages
being 69.8 and 30.2, respectively. The same report shows a
pupil enrollment of 1972 black students and 439 white students,
the percentages being 81.8 and 18.2, respectively. The most
recent semi-annual report, that for the First Term 1934-35
School Year, shows a faculty composition of 124 black teachers
and 50 white teachers, the percentages being 71.3 and 28.7,
respectively. The same report shows a pupil enrollment of
1690 black students and 323 white students, the percentages
being 84 and 16, respectively. The two reports mentioned
above and all of the reports in between show roughly the
same distribution in faculty and pupil enrollment. The
semi-annual reports additionally demonstrate the unitary
status of the school transportion system throughout Amite
County.
There is ample precedent for a district court's dissolving
a Singleton-type order and dismissing a case. See Singleton
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v. Jackson Mun. Separate School Dist., 541 F. Supp. 904
(S.D. Miss. 1981) (court granted school district relief from
Singleton order after ten years operation as a unitary
system); United States v. Corinth Mun. Separate School
-Dist., 414 PF. Supp. 1336 (N.D. Miss. 1976) (court granted
school district relief from Singleton order after seven
years' operation as unitary system.) Indeed, the Fifth
Circuit has stated "It has never been our purpose to keep
these cases interminably in the federal courts." United
States v. State of Texas (San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated
Independent School Dist.), 509 F. Supp. 192, 194 (5th Cir.
1975).
CONCLUSION
Upon an evidentiary hearing, the defendants will amply
demonstrate to this Court that the Amite County School
District has achieved unitary status in the areas of faculty,
staff, transportation, extracurricular activities and facilities
and student body composition. The orders of this Court have
been followed in all respects. There is no reason for the
continued operation of the Amite County School District
under the Singleton-type order and no reason for the District
to submit the semi-annual reports required by this Court's
October 19, 1977, order. Under these circumstances, the
defendants respectfully request this Court to enter an order
dissolving all outstanding court orders and finally dismissing
this case.
T. F. Badon
Post Office Box 353
Liberty, Mississippi 39645
Telephone (601)657-8054
Robert A. Miller
WATKINS & EAGER
Post Office Box 650
Jackson, Mississippi 39205
Telephone (601)948-6470
Respectfully submitted,
AMITE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT;
MAURICE E. FOREMAN, Superintendent
of Education, Amite County School
District; J. H. SMITH, L. W. GRAVES,
DOUGLAS STEWART, CURTIS BISHOP, and
REBECCA ROBERTSON, Trustees, Amite
County School District
on. Jd AL A ir”
Attorney for Defepdants
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I, Robert A. Miller, one of the attorneys for the
defendants in the above styled and numbered cause, do hereby
certify that I have this day forwarded a true and correct
copy of the above and foregoing memorandum brief to Fred L.
Banks, Jr., Esquire, Banks and Nichols, Post Office Drawer
290, Jackson, Mississippi 39205; and to Nathaniel Douglas,
Chief Educational Opportunities Litigation Section, Civil
Rights Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington
P.C. 520530.
This the 20th day of February, 1985.
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Robert A. Miller
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8/20/68
5/13/69
SUMMARY OF LITIGATION
Justice Department filed suit against Amite
County School District.
Order of preliminary injunction (Judge Russell)
implementing freedom of choice and other measures.
District Court order (Judge Russell) clarifying
injunction ordering Amite County School District
to discontinue operating on basis of race or
color and effecting freedom of choice desegregation.
District Court order (Judge Russell) permanently
enjoining Amite County School District from
discriminating on basis of race or color and
implementing mandatory exercise of choice
District Court order (Judge Russell) requiring
Amite County School Board to submit plan "to
ensure the immediate and effective erradication
of racially identifiable schools" by July 26, 1968.
District Court order (Judge Russell) vacating
July 9, 1968 order
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion and order
cited as Adams v. Mathews and United States v.
Amite County School District, 403 F.2d 181 (5th
Cir. 1968) ordering district court to determine
adequacy of plans and whether plans will work
immediately. In this opinion, the Fifth Circuit
ordered school districts not to merely open doors
but to take affirmative steps to desegregate
school systems.
District Court opinion (Judge's Cox, Russell
and Nixon) denying plaintiff's motion to update
25 cases to conform with Green v. County School
Board of New Kent County, Virginia, 391 U.S. 430,
88 Sup. Ct. 1689, 10 L.EAd.24 716 (1968) as to the
working of freedom of choice plan to desegregate
the student body of the schools in those 25
school districts. This order denied the plain-
tiff's request for forced mixing by ratio and
was critical of the HEW plan. The opinion
ordered desegregation of school faculties and
set a target date.
Appendix I - Page 1
5/16/69 - District Court order (Judge Cox) denying the
plaintiff's supplemental relief in accordance
with May 13, 1969 opinion but ordering school
boards to "take positive and affirmative
steps to achieve the complete desegregation
of their school faculties so that by the
beginning of the 1970-71 school year, the
pattern of teacher assignments is not
identifiable as tailored for a heavy con-
centration of either Negro or white pupils.”
7/3/69 - Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion and
order cited as United States v. Hinds County
School Board and United States v. Amite
county School District, 417 r.24 852, (5th
Cir. 1969) reversing May 13 opinion and May
16 order of the District Court and commanding
zoning and pairing. The Fifth Circuit
commanded desegregation of each school
district's student body, faculty, staff,
athletics, and school activities and school
location and construction. The opinion
further commanded that the school districts
work with HEW and submit a plan no later
than August 11, 1969, for implementation
for the 1969-70 school year
3/11/69 - HEW filed its plan with the court.
8/19/69 — Amite County School District filed its objections
to HEW plan.
8/21/69 - Justice Department filed motion to extend time
for submission of terminal desegregation
plans to December 1, 1969.
8/26/69 - Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law
by District Court (Judges Nixon and Russell)
recommending Fifth Circuit approval of
deadline extension to December 1, 1969,
citing Hurricane Camille as one justification
for delay in submission.
8/28/69 - Fifth Circuit order - granting extension of
time for HEW and school boards to work
together and formulate desegregation plans
to be submitted no later than December 1, 19689.
Page 2
10/29/69 =~ Order of United States Supreme Court cited
as Alexander v. Homes County Board of
Education, 396 U.S. 19, 90 Sup. Ct. 29,
24 L.E4d.2d 19 (1969) - United States Supreme
Court directing many school districts
in Mississippi, including Amite County School
District "to terminate dual school systems
at once and to operate now and hereafter only
unitary schools."
11/3/69 ~ Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals order
directing all parties to submit proposed
orders by November 5.
11/7/69 - Fifth Circuit opinion and order cited as
United States v. Hinds County School Board
and United States v. Amite County School
District, 423 F.24 1264 (5th Cir. 1969)
effecting the HEW plans with compliance
mandated by December 31, 19609.
At this point, the Amite County School
District moved to amend the HEW plan only
to the extent of pupil assignment. The
school district proposed pupil assignment
on the basis of sex.
12/10/69 - Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals order
modifying HEW student assignment plan by
allowing proposed plan for assignment of
students by sex for remainder of 1969-70
school term and ordering Judge Russell
to make findings of fact and recommendations
for plan's continued use in 1970-71 school
term.
3/10/70 - Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals instituted
semi-annual reporting requirements for
school districts.
7/14/70 - District Court Findings of Fact and Recommen-
dations (Judge Russell). The Court, after
hearing testimony of Miss Annie Andrews,
Superintendent of Amite County School District,
found in favor of assignment of students by
sex and recommended to the Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals that the Amite County School
District be permitted to continue its
assignment plan by sex and recommended that
the "current desegregation of faculty and
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staff policy remain in effect...."
8/6/70 Fifth Circuit order approving student
assignment by sex plan for 1970-71 school
term but deferring final ruling until
receipt of semi-annual reports.
11/13/72 District Court order (Judge Cox) closing
case pending any further action.
At this point in time, the Amite County
School District, pursuant to court approval,
continued the sex-segregated student assignment
plan and continued submitting semi-annual
reports,
12/30/74 Justice Department and Amicus Curiae (NAACP
Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.) moved
court to discontinue Amite County student
assignment plan on basis of sex; and Amicus
noved Court to discontinue practice of
assigning students to grade sections on
basis of race.
6/2/75 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals order commanding
Amite County School Board to show cause within
thirty days why Title II §§203(a) and 401(b)
of the Education Amendments of 1974 do not
mandate discontinuance of student assignment
by sex and why school districts should not
be enjoined from assigning students to grade
sections on basis of race.
After the June 2, 1975, Fifth Circuit order,
settlement negotiations between HEW and Amite
County School Board were held, but reached an
impasse.
9/21/77 - Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion cited
as United States v. Amite County School District,
560, F.24 619 (5th Cir. 1977), reversing July
14, 1970 District Court findings and recommenda-
tion and ordering Amite County School Board to
fashion a remedy as required by the Equal Edu-
cational Opportunity Act of 1974, 20 U.S.C. §§81701,
et. seq.
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10/7/17
10/18/77
10/19/77
1/7/81
Amite County School District filed its motion
for court approval of its desegregation plan
which was attached to the motion as exhibit
"A" pursuant to 1969 HEW recommendations. The
plan was to be effective January 2, 1978.
Amite County School District filed its motion
for approval of an amendment to the desegregation
plan which amendment provided for October 15 and
April 15 reports to be submitted to the Court, the
Justice Department and Amicus Curiae (NAACP
Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.).
District Court order (Judge Russell) approving
plan as requested, except effective date ordered
to be on or before November 1, 1977, instead
of January 2, 1978.
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals order terminating
requirement for submitting semi-annual reports
to Fifth Circuit. This order, however, did not
affect the requirement to send the October 15 and
April 15 reports to the district court, the
Justice Department and Amicus Curiae.
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ccble 45. Age by Race, Spanish Origin, and Sex for Counties:
. : [For meaning of symbols, see Introduction. For defirétions of terms, see oppendixes A and 8)
1980
Roce Roce
Spanish origin! Spanish origin!
Counties Tord White Bock Tord White Bock
Mole Female Mole Female Nols Femole Mole Female Mode Fernie Mole Female Woe Femole Mole Female
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