N.C. Emergency Committee to Launch Statewide School Integration Drive
Press Release
January 16, 1970

Cite this item
-
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 July 30, 2025.
Copied!
» AnD a President Hon. Francis E. Rivers BAA) FE PRESS RELEASE Director Counsel egal efense und Tack Crocoberg 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. -30= 1/16/70 EH 25