Former White Mate Resents New Negro Husband; Demands Children's Custody

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March 7, 1966

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Press Releases, Volume 3. Former White Mate Resents New Negro Husband; Demands Children's Custody, 1966. 805553d2-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/2a9b5294-b523-46ed-990d-4cade9c29f92/former-white-mate-resents-new-negro-husband-demands-childrens-custody. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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    10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
JUdson 68397 

NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund: 
PRESS RELEASE 
President 

Hon. Francis Rivers Roney a 

BD jack Crcenborg March 7, 1966° 

FORMER WHITE MATE RESENTS NEW NEGRO 3 
HUSBAND; DEMANDS CHILDREN'S CUSTODY 4 

Federal Court Grants Hearing March 25th 

LOUISVILLE, Ky,.---A March 25th hearing to determine the future of 

five white children, their mother and her new Negro husband, was 

secured in Federal District Court here this week by attorneys of 

the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. 

Mrs. Francis Eilers Anderson wants her children returned to 

her new home, All five youngsters are presently being cared for 

in homes provided by the court pending outcome of the hearing. 

Mrs. Anderson divorced George Eilers in June of 1963 on 

grounds that he was "unfit to act as father and husband." She 

gained custody of the children. 

She subsequently married Marshall Anderson, a Negro, in 

Illinois in January of 1964 and moved to a predominantly Negro 

neighborhood in Louisville. 

The following month, Mr. Eilers petitioned the local curcuit 

court for custody of the children on the sole ground that the new 

husband was a Negro. 

Kentucky law declares marriage between a white and a Negro 

illegal and void. 

Circuit Judge Lyndon B, Schmid ordered the children removed 

from their mother and issued an order saying "rearing these 

children in a racially mixed atmosphere will per se indoctrinate 

them with a psychology of inferiority." 

Legal Defense Fund attorney, James A, Crumlin, questioned a 

letter sent in January of 1965 by Judge Schmid, which stated: 

"Since the divorce, the mother has married of her rece and 
the court feels the best interests of the children require that 
they be reared in a home other than the one maintained by the 
mother and her new husband.” 

Joining Attorney Crumlin in the case are Legal Defense Fund 
Attorneys Jack Greenberg and Leroy Clark of New York City. 

=30=. 

Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Inf ion—Night Number 212 ide 9-8487 eB

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