Dallas, Texas. -- The U.S. Court of Appeals

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
107 WEST 43 STREET © NEW YORK 36, N. Y. © JUdson 6-8397 

ARTHUR B. SPINGARN oa THURGOOD MARSHALL 
President Director and Counsel 

ROY WILKINS ROBERT L. CARTER 
Secretory Assistant Counsel 

ALFRED BAKER LEWIS ARNOLD de MILLE 
Treasurer Press Relations 

FOR IMME DIATE RELEASE November 15,1957 

DALLAS, TEXAS. --The U.S. Court of Appeals was asked last Saturday to 

affirm a district court ruling which ordered the Dallas public schools to admit 

Negro students beginning with the 1957-58 mid-winter term. 

The district court on September 9, ordered the Dallas School Board to admit 

the Negro students as of the mid-winter 1957-58 term "on the same terms and 

conditions as though they were members of the white race." The order was 

issued after the Court of Appeals had on two previous occasions overruled the 

district court's findings and sent the case back for further consideration. 

The Dallas School Board objected to the order setting forth the date for the 

end of segregation in its public schools and on October 25, appealed to the U.S. 

Court of Appeals on the grounds that the lower court abused its discretion, 

Attorneys for the Negro students, in a brief filed here Saturday, November 9, 

with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, maintained that the district 

court did not abuse its discretion in setting a date for the beginning of 

desegregation in the city public schools. 

The case was originally filed with the district court on September 12, 1955, but 

was dismissed without a hearing on the basis that the Negro school facilities 

were "equal," 

On appeal, the Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal and sent the case back 

to the district court, directing that court to afford the parties full hearing on the 

issues, 

The district court, after a full hearing, dismissed the case for the second time 

on the grouud that the separate facilities were equal and crowded conditions 

required continued segregation. 

On the second appeal by attorneys for the Negro students, the Court of Appeals 

reversed the ruling and ordered the district court to enjoin the school board 

from requiring segregation of the races in any school under they supervision with 

all deliberate speed. The district court, in compliance, ordered the end of 

segregation by the 1957-58 mid-winter term. 

Attorneys for the Negro students are Louis Bedford, C.B. Bunkley,Jr., W.J. 

Durham and U.S. Tate of Dallas, and Robert L. Carter and Thurgood Marshall of 

New York. 
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