LDF Wins Right for Children from Nine Negro Families in Carthage, Miss. to Attend Integrated Schools (Telegram)

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December 27, 1965

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Press Releases, Volume 3. LDF Wins Right for Children from Nine Negro Families in Carthage, Miss. to Attend Integrated Schools (Telegram), 1965. 6f7b7695-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/56eb4a4f-f4e4-4159-b714-f69a5b377563/ldf-wins-right-for-children-from-nine-negro-families-in-carthage-miss-to-attend-integrated-schools-telegram. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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en ed litigation, the Legal Defense Fund was able to win the 
right for children from nine Negro families in Carthage, Mi sages te’. to 

_ attend integrated schools(for the first time. A campaign of intimidations, 
threats and economic reprisals was immediately launched with intensity 
that caused eight of the families involved to withdraw their children. sey 

_ As a result, 6-year old Debora Lewis was the only child to be enrolled §/ 
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fired from his lumber company job the day after she enteted school and — 
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