Correspondence from Pamela Karlan to James U. Blacksher, Esq. Re Dillard v. Crenshaw County

Correspondence
August 21, 1987

Correspondence from Pamela Karlan to James U. Blacksher, Esq. Re Dillard v. Crenshaw County preview

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  • Press Releases, Volume 1. Breakthrough in Miss. School Bigotry Scored, 1964. 5184bdcd-b492-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/56961bd5-067b-416a-920f-d6973218f01f/breakthrough-in-miss-school-bigotry-scored. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
TOCOLUMBUS CIRCLE * NEWYORK19,N.Y. © JUdson 6-83 97 
DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS JACK GREENBERG CONSTANCE BAKER%, 
President © Director-Counsel Associate Counsel 

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SCHOOL BIGOTRY SCORED : 
BREAKTHROUGH IN MISS. 3 

NAACP Legal Defense Attorneys Move Forward 

March 6, 1964 

SS.--Another crack in Mississippi's wall of segregation 
was * oxeeer® this week when three school boards were told to sub- 
mit school integration plans by July 15th, 

sneys of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund won a preliminary in- 
rom U.S, District Court Judge Sidney C. Mize, affecting 
hools in Jackson, Biloxi and Leake County, Mississippi. 

“Mize decreed that their integration plans must includet ¢ 5 
Ne grade integration a year. Legal Defense Fund att 
us able to score a major step toward integration he 

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Bell of New York City, Legal Defense Fund assis 
e! wi is arguing the case, said that 63 Negro childre 
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(mong then are Darrell Kenyatta and Reene Denise Evers, childrer 
ain NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers. 

r. Bell is being assisted by Legal Defense Fund cooper 
eys R. Jess Brown and Jack Young, both of Jackson, Mi

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