Second Negro Admitted to University of Mississippi

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
10 COLUMBUS CIRCLE «+ NEW YORK19,N.Y. © JUdson 6-8397 

DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS JACK GREENBERG CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY 
President Director-Counsel Associate Counsel 

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SECOND NEGRO ADMITTED TO 

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI 

May 29, 1963 

New York — N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund attorneys won admission 

to the University of Mississippi for a second Negro student this week. 

Cleve McDowell, 21, won the right to enter the university's law 

school for the summer semester beginning June 5th when District Court 

Judge Sidney Mize issued on May 28th a Temporary Restraining Order 

against the Board of Trustees of state universities and the Registrar 

and Chancellor of the university. 

Attorneys Constance Baker Motley and Derrick Bell filed suit 

before Judge Mize yesterday, The judge issued the restraining order 

in open court. He set a hearing on a Preliminary Injunction in the 

case for June 3rd. 

Mr. McDowell had applied to law school last fall and was report- 

edly accepted by law school officials without the formal filing of 

case. His scholastic record at Jackson State College, from which he 

craduated this week, is excellent. The suit became necessary when 

the Board of Trustees voted to reject McDowell's application because 

of campus "unrest." Judge Mize said in issuing his order “in every 

respect, he has been shown to be qualified." 

Mr. McDowell is a close friend of James Meredith, who hopes to 

complete his work at the university this summer. Mrs. Motley on May 

28th also asked Judge Mize for an order requiring the university to 

grant Mr. Meredith married-student quarters for the summer term so 

that this wife and son can join him. Judge Mize set June 3rd as the 

date for a hearing on this motion,

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