Legal Defense Fund Scores Major School Integration Breakthrough

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June 19, 1964

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Fed. Dist. Ct. Outlaws Private School Tuition Grants

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Press Releases, Volume 1. Legal Defense Fund Scores Major School Integration Breakthrough, 1964. 250553f2-b492-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/0978232e-6c49-4cbb-9d07-ec4392dc0032/legal-defense-fund-scores-major-school-integration-breakthrough. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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New York, N.Y. 10019 
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NAACP 

une 19, 19 
PRESS RELEASE Bi 

President 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers 
Director-Counsel hs 

Jack Greenberg , 
Associate Counsel ce 

Constance Baker Motle "he 
LEGAL DEFENSE FUND SCORES MAJOR dae 

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Legal Defense and Educational F und 

SCHOOL INTEGRATION BREAKTHROUGH 

NEWYORK, N.Y.--A major breakthrough in school integration took~ 
place yesterday when a federal district court put» an end to & 
"private" schools and tuition grants often utilized by southern 
communities seeking to avoid integration. 

Jack Greenberg, director-counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 
which won the ruling, today applauded that order, which "closes 
the door on attempts at ending the '54 school segregation de- 
¢ision via the school closings and tuition grant tactics. 

"We will move quickly to apply it whenever such efforts at 
school integration evasion occur anywhere in the south, where 
we are currently pressing 82 separate school integration actions 
in 14 states. 

"This decision will alter the southern school integration 
picture in hard core ares," he said. 

The ruling referred to came down yesterday in the U.S, 
District Court for the eastern district of Va. Judge John D, 
Butzner Jr. said that the Surry County school board may no™®* 
longer process or approve "any applications from persons Te= 
siding in Surry County for state or county scholarships for 
use in any school that discriminates in admission and educa- 
tion of pupils on the basis of race." 

In addition, Judge Butzner decreed that the school board may 
no longer use race as a criteria in "assignment, placement; 
transfer, admission, enrollment or education of any child in 
andsto any public school or any child's use of any facility 
owned or controlled by the School Board." 

White students in Surry County have been attending "pri- 
vate" schools on scholarship, while Negroes attended their 
all-colored "public" schools. 

The case was argued by Henry L. Marsh III and Samuel WwW. 
Tucker, NAACP Legal Defense Fund cooperating attorneys of 
Richmond, Va. 

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

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