Alabama's Jury Selection Statute - Discriminatory Exclusion of Negroes

Press Release
January 6, 1969

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  • Press Releases, Volume 5. Alabama's Jury Selection Statute - Discriminatory Exclusion of Negroes, 1969. 3eada33a-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/22fb7ca7-cdbc-47b4-8b66-017c59757cc6/alabamas-jury-selection-statute-discriminatory-exclusion-of-negroes. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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Hon. Francis E. Rivers 

PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel 
egal efense und Jack Greenberg 

Director, Public Relations 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. Jesse DeVore, Jr. 
NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487 

10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 

January 6, 1969 

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WASHINGTON, D.C.--The U.S. Supreme Court today,asked to rule on 

the constitutionality of Alabama's jurors selection statute. 

In an appeal to the Court by the NAACP Legal Defense and 

Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Alabama's process of selecting jury 

commissioners and jurors was said to foster "the discriminatory 

exclusion of Negroes." 

The LDF charges that the statutory standard of selection there- 

fore violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. 

Attorney Norman C. Amaker, LDF's first assistant-counsel, civil 

rights said the Supreme Court has yet to rule on the validity of a 

state juror selection standard. 

The LDF earlier appealed a similar case(Turner v. Fouche, December 

15) to the High Court which involved a juror selection standard in 

Georgia. 

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NOTE: Though the LDF was once a part of the National Association 

for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) it now isa 

separate organization, even though the initials are retained 

in its title. 

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