Ayers appeal: Money's being withheld from schools

 
STEVEN A. McCALEB
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I would like to obtain more information about the Jake Ayers case,
please send me any information pertaining to the case.
E-Mail: MCCALEB5THDIST@AOL.COM

By TIMOTHY R. BROWN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  

The below is an email I received

This Jake Ayers case is being settled real
quiet by our Attorney Mike Moore & Gov. Ronnie Musgrove.
I think that is why Mike Moore & Ronnie Musgrove got
elected by the NAACP. It is pay back time & that was the
first thing these two elected men did...SETTLE THE JAKE
AYERS CASE by the tune of $500 million of the tax payers
money. Most Mississippians are not aware of this case.
They need to wake up & STOP this under the table pay
back to the NAACP. Yes you have my permission to print
my e-mail I sent you. Oh, I just want to gag about this
case.

LINKS

http://members.aol.com/digasa/stats54.htm

http://msuinfo.ur.msstate.edu/hot_news/ayers/a-top.htm

I can understand why their cannot be all black colleges,
but what I do not understand is why Mississippi taxpayers
are paying $500 million dollars to three black universities

JACKSON - A group fighting a proposed settlement of Mississippi's college desegregation lawsuit says the state wants to force them to accept the deal by withholding money from historically black universities.

U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers Jr., who oversees the long-running case, refused in November to allow a number of plaintiffs to opt out of a $500 million agreement to pursue a separate lawsuit.

The group of faculty members, students and alumni of Mississippi's three historically black universities filed two appeals last week in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

In one appeal, the Mississippi Coalition on Black Higher Education said it was unfair of Biggers to not allow them to pursue a separate appeal of the proposed settlement. In the other appeal, the group alleged the state has been withholding money.

"We recently learned that the Ayers funding that had been coming to the three historically black universities was now being withheld," Ivory Phillips, president of the Mississippi Coalition on Black Higher Education, said Thursday.

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