Statement by NAACP Fund Attorneys on the James Meredith Case

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January 8, 1963

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
1TOCOLUMBUS CIRCLE + NEW YORK19,N.Y. © JUdson 6-8397 
DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS JACK GREENBERG 
Prosident 

CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY 
Director-Counsel Associate Counsel 

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STATEMENT BY NAACP FUND ATTORNEYS 
ON THE JAMES MEREDITH CASE 

January 8, 1963 

NEW YORK -~ (The following is a joint statement issued January 7, 

1963, by Mrs. Constance Baker Motley, attorney for James Meredith, 

and Jack Greenberg, Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and 

Educational Fund.) 

"Though Mr. Meredith has announced he cannot continue his 

studies next semester at the University of Mississippi because 

of the unfavorable conditions and hostility there, this will not 

lessen our efforts to secure for other qualified Negro students 

the right to enter the University of Mississippi, or other 

southern state universities which are now segregated. 

"In South Carolina, Harvey Gantt's case to enter Clemson 

College is now pending. But in addition, students in Mississippi, 

Alabama and other young people in South Carolina have solicited 

our aid to enter various state institutions of higher learning, 

and we are now preparing pleadings which will be filed in their 

cases at an early date."

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