Response of Defendant to Petition for Writ of Certiorari Filed by William Milliken and Frank J. Kelley

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June 12, 1972

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Response of Defendant Detroit Board of Education to Petition for Writ of Certiorari Filed by William Milliken and Frank J. Kelley

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  • Press Releases, Loose Pages. Court Rules to Speed-Up Desegregation in Schools Statement by Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg, 1963. 037bf373-bd92-ee11-be37-6045bddb811f. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/29a5168c-9e46-4e28-b4e7-be6d548e54fb/court-rules-to-speed-up-desegregation-in-schools-statement-by-director-counsel-jack-greenberg. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
10 COLUMBUS CIRCLE * NEWYORK19,N.Y. © JUdson 6-8397 
DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS JACK GREENBERG CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY 
President Director-Counsel Associate Counsel 

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COURT RULES TO SPEED-UP DESEGREGATION IN SCHOOLS 
STATEMENT BY DIRECTOR-COUNSEL JACK GREENBERG 

June 3, 1963 

NEW YORK -- The United States Supreme Court unanimously re- 

versed this morning two school desegregation plans from 

Knoxville and Davidson County, Tennessee. 

The cases were brought on appeal from the Court of Appeals 

for the Sixth Circuit by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and 

argued before the Supreme Court March 19th by Director-Counsel 

Jack Greenberg. 

The Court held unconstitutional the ‘racial option' transfer 

system as applied by the two school boards. Under this plan, 

children assigned to schools which previously served the other 

race are permitted to transfer to schools where their race is 

in the majority; they may also transfer if they are assigned 

to any school or grade where their race is in the minority. 

Mr. Greenberg contended before the court that the plan 

operated to perpetuate segregation rather than further desegre- 

gation. 

He said of today's decision: "This decision closes another 

loophole for those who have been trying to avoid the ruling of 

May 17, 1954, 

"Along with the Memphis Park case of last week which held 

that delays in desegregation will not be tolerated, today's 

case represents a substantial advance. 

"We now have pending more than 60 school cases, and in all 

of them we will be filing papers based on these two decisions 

to speed up the desegregation process."

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