Suit Filed to Integrate TB Hospitals in Florida

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Press Releases, Volume 2. Suit Filed to Integrate TB Hospitals in Florida, 1964. 8a209384-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/2575bab1-e222-4ce4-baf4-ba2553da28b2/suit-filed-to-integrate-tb-hospitals-in-florida. Accessed June 13, 2025.

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

NAACP 

Defense and Educational F. und 
PRESS RELEASE 

Pe Allan Knight Chalmers 

Director-Counsel 

Jack Greenberg 

Legal 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Tuesday, 
December 22, 1964 

Associate Counsel 

Constance Baker Motley 

SUIT FILED TO INTEGRATE 
TB HOSPITALS IN FLORIDA 

Legal Defense Fund Asks Statewide Action 

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.---A suit seeking to end racial segregation in the 
State Tuberculosis sanatoriums and hospitals was filed in Federal 
Court here today by attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. 

It is the first suit to integrate all of the hospitals under the 

jurisdiction of a state agency. 

Legal Defense Fund lawyers are currently engaged in eleven 
other suits to desegregate the facilities in individual hospitals 
throughout the South. The action today represents the first attempt 
to bring statewide equality in Florida health facilities. 

Hospitals are not covered by the provisions of the 1954 Civil 
Rights Act, but the Legal Defense Fund has already won several 

important related cases. 

These hold that public hospitals receiving governmental money 
and licensed and regulated by state authorities must operate on a 

desegregated basis. 

In the complaint to the Federal District Court, Legal Defense 
Fund lawyers point out that the tuberculosis hospitals are tax 
exempt and are licensed 

In addition, these 
Federal funds under the 

On behalf of/seven 
TB hospitals, thevLegal 
end of segregated Wards 

In a related 
Jacksonville to 

by the state of Florida. 

hospitals have received over $2,000,000. in 
"Hill-Burton" program, they point out. 
Negroes who are or have been patients at the 
Defense Fund is asking the Court to order the 

and treatment areas. 
etion, the Legal Defense Fund filed suit in 
gregate the facilities of the Suwannee County 

Hospital, a publi 
money. 

stitution that has received considerable Federal 
Hae 

Earl M. Johns n of Jacksonville and Tobias Simon of Miami, 
Florida cooperating ettorneys of the Legal Defense Fund, were joined 
in bringing the suits by Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley, and 
Leroy D, Clark, all of the Legal Defense Fund's New York City head- 
quarters, 

"RIGHTS LAWYERS 
KEEP UP TO DATE 

WARRENTON, Va.---Fifty-five attorneys attended a "Civil Rights Law 
Institute" here last weekend that emphasized legal follow-through of 
the public accommodations and employment sections of the Civil Rights 
Act of 1964. 

The Institute, the third of its kind this year, was sponsored 
by the NAACP Legal Refense Fund, Its participanots~-all lawyers, came 
from Texas, Mississippi, Florida, Arkansas and Louisiana. 

"This is part of the Legal Defense Fund's eontinuing program of 
keeping its 120 cooperating attorneys, plus otber lawyers, up to date 
in the constantly developingsfield of civil rights Yaw," said Jack 
Greenberg, Director-Counsel. | ~ 

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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public I Night Number 212 R 9.8487

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