Partial Text of Greenberg Speech on Mass Firing of Teachers in North Carolina

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May 24, 1965

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NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 
President 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers 

Director-Counsel~ 
Jack Greenberg 

Partial Statement of Jack Greenberg, Director Counsel 
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. 
et Hilton Hotel, New York City, May 24, 1965, 1:30 PM 

o: We have just learned of the dismissal of Negro teachers in 

Gonzalez and Texas City, Texas, Virginia and North Carolina. 

Approximately 500 Negro teachers face dismissal in North Carolina 

alone as the result of desegregation plans which allow a few Negro 

pupils to transfer to white schools but do not desegregate 

faculties. 

We are certain that a trend is rapidly emerging across the 

South and we are in the midst of documenting this situation 

thaouah our 120 cooperating attorneys. 

In the past ten years, Negro teachers dismissed when school 

districts integrated were able to find other jobs in segregated 

school systems; but now with massive integration campaigns under 

way, under Title VI and in the courts, teachers who are dismissed 

must secure employment in their home communities if the ‘economic 

and social backbone of the Negro community is to remain in tact. 

On a more personal level, this current trend disrupts family 

life, curtails professional aspirations and casts a shadow of 

discouragement upon the Negro community at a time when the 

possibilities o¢ long-awaited changes are coming about. 

The Legal Defense Fund has already begun to move to counteract 

this crisis. 

Dr. S. E. Duncan, President of the North Carolina Teachers' 

Association, Elliott Brown Palmer, Executive Secretary of the North 

Carolina Teacher Association, and Attorney Julius L. Chambers of 

North Carolina are here today to confer with our legal staff and 

Dr. John W, Davis, Director of Teacher Information and Security. 

The following telegram was sent this morning to Hon. Francis 

Keppel, U. S. Commissioner of Education. Copies of this wire were 

sent to Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and Attorney General 

Nicholas deB Katzenbach. (more) 
Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Rlverside 9-8487 so

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