Letter from J. Lee Rankin, U. S. Solicitor General, to Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President, Concerning a List of Court Orders and Plans for School Desegregation

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Le. siles O.F. 142-A6 October 28, 1957 GENTRAL FILES DECI: 2 1957 Honorable Sherman Adams Assistant to the President The White House Dear Governor Adams: xGF154 Attached are the original and a copy of a list of the Court orders and plans for school desegregation that you asked us to have prepared for you. # In order that the list might be most helpful they have been arranged in the following manner: 1. Schools under court order to desegregate and now complying with the order. kof 111 - C 2. Schools under court order to desegregate but not complying with the order. (Note: In both 1 and 2 the effective date of the order was the fall of 1957 or earlier.) 3. Schools under court order to desegregate in 1958. 4. Schools under a court order to desegregate at an unspecified date. 5. Schools in which local policy has established desegregation date for the fall of 1957 or a later specific date. 6. Court orders effecting admission of negro students to institutions of higher learning. orig not sent to fills as of 12/13/57