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The circuit court directs Martha Lum’s admission

Rosedale · 5 November 1924

The circuit court directs Martha Lum’s admission

The circuit court directs Martha Lum’s admission, 5 November 1924

NARA RG 267, Case File 31534, digital objects 010, 013, 015–017; transcript pp. 10–11, objects 016–017. Displayed selected passage: transcript p. 11, object 017.

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directing them to admit petitioner, Martha Lum, as a pupil in the Rosedale Consolidated High School as prayed for in the petition. Upon motion properly made, defendants are hereby granted an appeal to the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi.

The circuit court directed a writ admitting Martha Lum and allowed the defendants an appeal. The Mississippi Supreme Court later reversed.

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Source-ledger reading; no independent human or community review.

An order directing admission does not establish subsequent attendance. Only page 11 is displayed; the complete two-page record remains linked.

The preceding page is not reproduced. This bounded excerpt is supported on the displayed second page. Line-end hyphenation joined.

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Does this order show that Martha Lum attended the school?

No. The court directed the trustees to admit her, and in the same order granted the defendants an appeal. A direction to admit is not a record of attendance, and the appeal means the direction did not stand as the last word.

Why is only one page of this order shown?

Because only that page carries the words quoted. The passage runs across two pages of the transcript, and the preceding page is not reproduced here, so the displayed excerpt is narrowed to what page 11 actually supports. The complete record stays linked.

Cited source: 5 November 1924

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