Integration Comes to Macon County Alabama Public School System

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July 29, 1964

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    10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
JUdson 6-8397 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 

President FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Dr. Allan Knight Chaimers JULY 29, 1964 

ajeoaceeeanere 
Astectate Couset 

Constance Baker Motley 

INTEGRATION COMES TO 
MACON COUNTY ALABAMA 
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM 

Court Issues Far-reaching Decree 

Montgomery, Ala.--One of the most far-reaching decrees in the 
history of the struggle for equality in education was issued 
here last week when a three-judge Federal court ended segrega- 
tion in Macon County, Ala. 

The court order put an end to months of controversy 
involving Negro and white students at Shorter High, Macon County 
High in Notasulga, and Macon Academy in Tuskegee. 

NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys had brought the 
action in January of 1963. 

In February Governor George Wallace had issued an 
executive decree saying Negroes could not attend previously 
white schools, The new court order specifically forbids 
Governor Wallace from interfering with peaceful school :gtegra- 
tion. 

On.leamhingsof the decision, Jack Greenberg, Director- 
Counsel of the Legal Defense Fund, called it "the most sweeping 
decree in the h¥story of the Fund's school integration campaign," 

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He further stated: Although the decision is, for the 
moment, limited to Macon Cotinty, it lays the groundwork for ~ 
future action to enjoin Alabama school segregation in a single 
suit. 3 

"This decree stops Governor Wallace and other state 
officials from ‘harassing or punishing' students or teachers 
attending integrated schools, School efficials are now free 
to move toward integration without pressure from state officials. 

"It knocks out tuition grants as a means of perpetuating 
segregation and declares that state officials may not use their 
power to thwart integration. 

"The decree also enjoined local Macon county officials 
from: operating jim crow schools; applying different tests, 
procedures or requirements to Negro applicants. 

"The court ordered the Macon county board to file a 
detailed plan of operating the schools for the 1964-65 year 
on or before August 3rd. It further ordered that such plans 
should include desegregation of the 9th, 10th, llth and 12th 
grades and at least one of the elementary school grades in 
each of the schools in Macon Ceunty," he concluded. 

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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Rlyerside 9-8487 BH

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