Six Southern States Lose School Integration Fight

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President
Hon. Francis E. Rivers

PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. Jesse DeVore, Jr.
10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 68397 FOR RELEASE NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487

FRIDAY

y¥ OCTOBER 13, 1967

SIX SOUTHERN STATES LOSE |

SCHOOL INTEGRATION FIGHT |

U.S. Supreme Court Backs Up Lower Court LDF Ruling

WASHINGTON---Responding to the U.S. Supreme Court's action this week--=

allowing accelerated southern school integration---the NAACP Legal De-

fense and Educational Fund, Inc. announced a step-up of litigation in

nearly 200 cases.

The ruling, in effect, calls for top to bottom school integration in

six deep southern states.

The high court refused to review the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
ruling affecting nine crucial school integration cases.

Under the Appeals Court decision in the Caddo Parish group of cases,

"a desegregation plan must work, must abolish the dual school system

and the identifiable Negro school," said LDF Director-Counsel Jack

Greenberg.

This is "the most influential school desegregation opinion since the
Supreme Court's 1954 school ruling," Mr. Greenberg added.

The nine cases---of which six were brought by LDF attorneys---contained

the underlying issue of the pace and extent of school integration across |
the south, and acceptance of the U.S. Department of Health, Education

and Welfare guidelines.

States affected include Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Mississ-

ippi and Texas.

An array of LDF attorneys led by Associate-Counsel James Nabrit, III
argued the cases on the Appeals Court level.

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