District Court Granted Temporary Restraining Order to Block Eviction of Indigent Mother of 4 from Atl. Public Housing - Lack of Due Process

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March 9, 1967

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Press Releases, Volume 4. District Court Granted Temporary Restraining Order to Block Eviction of Indigent Mother of 4 from Atl. Public Housing - Lack of Due Process, 1967. 745b8299-b792-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/291711de-5533-4052-aae9-2e3e42c38020/district-court-granted-temporary-restraining-order-to-block-eviction-of-indigent-mother-of-4-from-atl-public-housing-lack-of-due-process. Accessed December 04, 2025.

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. 
10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 

Ares ociated Pr 
Mar. 9, 

Statement to o) 

Atlanta, Georgia. 

President 
Hon. Francis E. Rivers 

PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel 
Jack Greenberg 

Director, Public Relations 

Jesse DeVore, Jr. 
NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487 

indigent mother of four, residin Ld 

project in Atlanta, Georgia. 

in the Perry 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. attor 

that Mrs, Williams was denied due process and equal prote of the 

law. They said that Mrs. Williams had no hearing on the reasons for 

her eviction and that bond before 

she could defend against the eviction in a state court denied her 

protection available to more affluent citizens. 
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Mrs./as eviction. 

would permit her to appeal the allow her to defend 

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denied a stay. 

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Supreme Court. That court refused 

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attorneys then filed the action in 

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Federal Court in Atlanta on the LD 

trial court, hov 

tay of eviction from the Georgia 

to accept the papers. A stay wa 

upreme Court. Mrs. Williams! 

Federal District Court. 

for March 17 before the three-judge 

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