Nabrit Statement on Desegregation in 11 School Disctricts
Press Release
January 14, 1970
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Statement by James M. Nabrit, III, Associate Counsel
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
January 14, 1970
We understand today's Supreme Court opinion to mean that it
is no longer proper to wait until next September to carry out
desegregation and school districts must act during this school
year to effect integration.
The LDF will take prompt action in the lower courts to
insure that the Supreme Court's mandate is carried out in our
eleven school districts involved XHXYMXNAa in today's order
and will take similar action in a large number of our 217
school cases in the South.
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