Correspondence from Lani Guinier to Elaine Fleeman, Esq. Re Smith v. City of Pine Bluff

Correspondence
August 15, 1986

Correspondence from Lani Guinier to Elaine Fleeman, Esq. Re Smith v. City of Pine Bluff preview

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  • Press Releases, Loose Pages. NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys will attempt this week to have a Federal District Court in Jackson, Miss., 1961. ba6cfdcf-bc92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/2f9f15f0-fe2d-493c-a874-96aa720e9585/naacp-legal-defense-fund-attorneys-will-attempt-this-week-to-have-a-federal-district-court-in-jackson-miss. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
10 COLUMBUS CIRCLE « NEW YORK 19,N.Y. © JUdson 6-8397 

DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS oa THURGOOD MARSHALL 
Director-Counsel Prosident 

July 10, 1961 

NEW YORK - NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys will attempt this 

week to have a Federal District Court in Jackson, Miss. enjoin the Uni- 

versity of Mississippi from refusing to admit a Negro applicant to its 

second summer session. 

A hearing on a motion for preliminary injunction filed by Legal 

Defense Fund attorneys had been set for July 10, but the hearing may be 

postponed due to illness of a Mississippi state attorney. 

The Legal Defense attorneys hope to have a trial before the Univer- 

sity's second summer session commences July 17, so that its applicant, 

James H. Meredith of Jackson, may begin school then. 

The case is being heard in the Southern District Court of 

Mississippi, Jackson Division, by Judge Sidney C. Mize. The motion for 

preliminary injunction was filed July 1. 

Legal Defense attorneys charge, in their complaint filed May 31, 

that Meredith, who originally applied to the University on January 31, 

1961, 18 being denied admission solely on the grounds of race, and such 

e-nial is miconstitutional. 

A hearing is also set for Monday, July 10, on a Legal Defense Fund 

suit in Jackson which challengés racial segregation of transportation 

terminals and facilities in Mississippi. 

The case will be tried by a three-judge federal District Court con- 

sisting of Judges Elbert P. Tuttle, Sidney C. Mize, and Claude F. Claytcn, 

convened because the Legal Defense Fund complaint charges that state 

segregation of transportation is unconstitutional. A direct appeal to 

the U. S. Supreme Court can follow the decision of the three-judge court. 

The original action, filed on June 9, covers dining; waiting, and 

rest room facilities in bus, railroad and airline terminals. It directly 

affects the rights of Freedom Riders who are currently imprisoned under 

state segregation statutes in Jackson. 

NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys representing the plaintiffs are 

R. Jess Brown of Vicksburg, Miss., Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker 

Motley and Derrick A, Bell of New York City. 

Sacler

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