LDF Challenges Mississippi School Law (Telegram)

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September 14, 1965

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  • Press Releases, Volume 3. LDF Challenges Mississippi School Law (Telegram), 1965. 78121341-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/1b38eca2-dc1d-40f2-8787-80063e9b8b3e/ldf-challenges-mississippi-school-law-telegram. Accessed May 21, 2025.

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I+ The NAACP Lezal Defense and Educational Fund today challenged a Mississippi law could keep some 7,000 children from attending public school. 

The law affects orphans as well as children whose parents have left Mississippi, which has the lowest per Capita income in the country, to seek employment elsewhere, 
The Legal Defense complaint alleges that most of the children affected by the law are Negroes, and that the law is enforced against children who exercise their "freedom of choice" and attempt to enroll in white schools, but not against children who remain in Negro schools, 

For further information contact Attorneys Henry Aronson or Marian Wright, Jackson, (601) 352-823, or James M, Nabrit, New York, (212) JU 68397, 

Edwin K, Wiley 
Public Information Assistant 

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