LDF Wins Tuition-Free New York Education for Alabama Girl

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April 6, 1967

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Press Releases, Volume 4. LDF Wins Tuition-Free New York Education for Alabama Girl, 1967. 93b312be-b792-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/0d835014-c781-4983-8ff7-82d627bca739/ldf-wins-tuition-free-new-york-education-for-alabama-girl. Accessed October 09, 2025.

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President 

Hon. Francis E. Rivers 
PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel 

egal efense und Jack Greenberg 
Director, Public Relations 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, #NC. Jome DeVore te 
10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6.8897. ici Nontsen 712-749-8607 

“en. 

% FOR RELEASE, 
THURSDAY 

April 6, 1967 

LDF WINS TUITION-FREE 
NEW YORK EDUCATION 
FOR ALABAMA GIRL 

National Urban League Affiliate Is Sponsoring Body 

NEW YORK---An Alabama Negro teenager, now a ward of a white family in 
Port Washington, will be permitted to attend public schools there with- 
out payment of tuition, 

Announcement of the ruling by Commissioner of Education James E. 
Allen was made here today By officials of the NAACP Legal Defense and 
Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). 

Jack Greenberg, LDF director-counsel argued the case before Com- 
missioner Allen last January in Albany in behalf of the Student Transfer 
Education Program (STEP), an affiliate of the National Urban League. 

Commissioner Allen ruled that the Board of Education of Union Free 
School District Number 4 failed to show "a valid or sufficient reason 
militating against reception of this pupil (Mary Elizabeth Moore) on a 
tuition-free basis." 

He added that "there is no evidence indicating that such attendance 
would cause an unreasonable additional operating cost." 

Commissioner Allen said that, even if an additional five other stu- 
dents within the same district were admitted on a tuition-free basis, 
their admissions “could in no way be deemed to cause an unreasonable 
additional operating cost." 

Mrs. Leonard Saletan, chairman of STEP, said that "other school 
districts with STEP students can now be assured that tuition-free accep- 
tance of these young people can properly be maintained," She added that 
STEP now plans to expand its activities. 

Miss Moore, the youngest of five children of a Birmingham widow 
now living on social security, was placed in the Port Washington home 
of Richard and Margery Rosen. 

Mr, Rosen, an architect and city planner educated at Carnegie Tech 
and Harvard, is in charge of Community Planning for Levitt and Sons,inc., 
the largest builder of private homes in the country. 

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STATEMENT BY JACK GREENBERG 

Nowadays, educational systems must experiment with new methods to 
cope with the needs of disadvantaged victims of segregated education. 
This decision assures that STEP's efforts will not be handicapped by 
imposition of intolerable financial burdens. 

Due to glaring inadequacies of southern education for Negro childzm, 
an increasing number of social agencies and private individuals of good 
will have been opening their homes to these disadvantaged youngsters. 

The American Friends Service Committee has a similar program as does 
the Board of National Missions of the United Presbyterian Church, In 
this case, the national group that placed the child is the Urban League, 

The way is now open to expanding such programs throughout the State, 

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