N.C. Emergency Committee to Launch Statewide School Integration Drive

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January 16, 1970

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Press Releases, Volume 6. N.C. Emergency Committee to Launch Statewide School Integration Drive, 1970. 3ee169f1-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/07ddc004-f2f5-45c1-8e41-aa2073e1cbe5/nc-emergency-committee-to-launch-statewide-school-integration-drive. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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Hon. Francis E. Rivers 

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. ee ee 
10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 Nici NUMBER 212-749-6487 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

i N.C. EMERGENCY COMMITTEE TO LAUNCH 
STATEWIDE SCHOOL INTEGRATION DRIVE 

DURHAM, N.C.---A statewide effort to achieve complete school 
desegregation in North Carolina will be launched at a benefit 
banquet on January 21 in Durham by a group of prominent local citizens. 

The Emergency Committee for North Carolina School Integration 
will hold its first annual event in behalf of the NAACP Legal 
Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), which has taken action in 
30 school cases in the state, winning orders to desegregate in 24 of 
the cases to date. 

Under the leadership of Charlotte attorney Julius L. Chambers, 
the LDF in North Carolina is currently pressing for the integration 
of schools in Charlotte, Durham, and Winston-Salem, actions affecting 
nearly 200,000 children, 

Two nationally known civil rights lawyers will come to North 
Carolina to assist the Committee. 

Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., former Chairman of the U.S. Equal 
Employment Opportunity Commission, and LDF Director-Counsel Jack 
Greenberg will speak at the kick-off dinner at the Durham Hotel-Motel 
(formerly Jack Tar Hotel) on Wednesday, January 21, at 7:30 p.m. 

Honorary Co-Chairmen of the Committee are John S. Stewart, 
president of the Mutual Savings & Loan Association of Durham, and 
Dr. Carlyle Marney, director of Inter-Faith House in Lake Junaluska, 
N.C. 

Other members are: 

Dr. Dewey M. Clayton Attorney Conrad 0. Pearson 
Attorney Theaoseus T, Clayton Professor Daniel Pollitt 
Attorney George S. Daly Dean A. Kenneth Pye 
Dean LeMarguis DeJarmon Dr. George C. Simkins 
Dr. Hubert A. Eaton Attorney C. C. Spaulding, Jr. 
Rev. B. B. Felder Professor William Van Alstyne 
John Hall John H. Wheeler 
Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins Dr. Raymond Wheeler 
Rev. J. T. McMillan Dr. Albert N. Whiting 
Dr. Lionel H. Newsom 

For further information and tickets, contact Miss Sandy Parks 
or Mrs. Ella Hand in Charlotte at 704-375-8461. 

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