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Article: Court gives OK to plan allowing for two Black seats on Dade School
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- Miami Times
- Article date:
- November 24, 1994
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Clemence Fiagome
Miami Times
11-24-1994
Court gives OK to plan allowing for two Black seats on Dade School. Board
By CLEMENCE FIAGOME
Times Staff Writer
A U.S. District Court Judge has approved a setlement proposed by the school board to change the present system of electing board members from at-large to single member districts.
The new system will ensure that there are two Blacks on a ninemember board when when elections are held in November, 1996.
Judge Lenore C. Nesbitt, who approved the plan, turned down a request from Blacks for three seats.
Lawyers H.T. Smith and Jesse McCrary had filed a complaint that included their own plan to provide for Blacks to be elected to three seats.
They were ...
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