LDF Wins Tuition-Free New York Education for Alabama Girl

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December 1, 1967

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Press Releases, Volume 5. LDF Wins Tuition-Free New York Education for Alabama Girl, 1967. 9fc4e34b-b892-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/02ae127f-e499-40a5-b1b3-7ccb85b53938/ldf-wins-tuition-free-new-york-education-for-alabama-girl. Accessed December 04, 2025.

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President 

Hon. Francis E. Rivers 
PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel 

egal efense lund Jock Greenbore 
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. ve Tene DeVere Te 
10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 

Jesse DeVore, Jr. 
NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487 

FOR RELEASE 
FRIDAY 
DECEMBER 1, 1967 

LDF WINS TUITION-FREE 
NEW YORK EDUCATION 
FOR ALABAMA GIRL 

National Urban League Affiliate Is Sponsoring Body 

ALBANY---The New York City Supreme Court has ruled that an Alabama 
Negro teenager, now a ward of a white pen in Port Washington, Long 
Island, may attend public schools there without payment of tuition. 

The state's highest court reaffirmed a prior ruling by Commissioner of 
Education James E. Allen. 

Announcement of the court's ruling was made by officials of the NAACP 
Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) in New York City today. 

Jack Greenberg, LDF director-counsel, argued the case before Commis- 
sioner Allen last January in Albany in behalf of the Student Transfer 
Education Program (STEP), an affiliate of the National Urban League. 

Commissioner Allen ruled that the Board of Education of Union Free 
School District Number 4 failed to show "a valid or sufficient reason 
militating against reception of this pupil (Mary Elizabeth Moore) on a 
tuition-free basis." 

He added that "there is no evidence indicating that such attendance 
would cause an unreasonable additional operating cost." 

Commissioner Allen said that, even if an additional five other stu- 
dents within the same district were admitted on a tuition-free basis, 
their admissions "could in no way be deemed to cause an unreasonable 
additional operating cost." 

Mrs. Leonard Saletan, chairman of STEP, said that “other school 
districts with STEP students can now be assured that tuition-free 
acceptance of these young people can properly be maintained." She 
added that STEP now plans to expand its activities. 

Miss Moore, the youngest of five children of a Birmingham widow now 
living on social security, was placed in the Port Washington home of 
Richard and Margery Rosen. 

Mr. Rosen, an architect and city planner educated at Carnegie Tech and 
Harvard, is in charge of Community Planning for Levitt and Sons, Inc., 
the largest builder of private homes in the country. 

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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is a separate 
and distinct organization from the National Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Colored People serving as the legal arm of the entire 
civil rights movement and representing members of all groups as well 
as unaffiliated individuals. 



Statement by Jack Greenberg, Director-Counsel 
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. 
December 4, 1967 (Re: Wallace v. Lee) 

The decision will have an enormous impact on southern school 

desegregation. 

Many of the 2,875 school districts in 11 southern states have 

resissed desegregation by inaction, feeling the probability was not 

great that a school desegregation suit would be brought against them. 

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the 

primary initiator of school desegregation suits in the South. has 

been taxed to the limit to handle 300 such suits. 

& Now, school desegregation suits, on a statewide basis, can 

result in greater and more efficient desegregation. LDF lawyers are 

now engaged in statewide suits in other Southern states. 

Issued to: 

AP, UPI - Montgomery, ala; Washington (Supreme Court 
Fred Graham 
Dana Bullen 
Washington Post

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