White Teacher Fired for Working with Negroes

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White Teacher Fired for Working With Negroes in Statesville, North Carolina

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Press Releases, Volume 5. White Teacher Fired for Working with Negroes, 1968. cad77f22-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/6584099f-75b1-4c09-af86-b8554bf0485b/white-teacher-fired-for-working-with-negroes. Accessed December 04, 2025.

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    IF? 
Hon. Francis E. Rivers 

PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel 
egal efense und ee CE 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. i po eis 
10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487 

\ FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE 

November 26, 1968 

WHITE TEACHER FIRED FOR 

WORKING WITH NEGROES 

LDF Attorneys File Suit 

STATESVILLE, N.C.---A white school teacher today brought suit 

against the Alexander County School Board which dismissed her 

for working with Negro civic organizations and worshipping at 

Negro churches. 

Miss Ann Collins alleges that School Superintendent Dwight 

Isenhour referred to her association with Negroes as embarrassing. 

She said he told her she would have to disassociate herself from 

the Negro community entirely or resign. 

When she refused to do either, she said, she was dismissed. 

Miss Collins was formerly a remedial reading teacher at Sugar 

Loaf School in Taylorsville, North Carolina. 

Her suit was filed here in the U.S. District Court by attorney 

Julius Chambers who is associated with the NAACP Legal Defense 

and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). 

Attorney Chambers is asking the court to reinstate Miss Collins 

or provide her with a position similar to the one she held pre- 

viously. 

He is asking that the county school board be prevented from 

practicing discrimination,based on race or color in its hiring 

and firing procedures, and that Miss Collins be awarded compen- 

sation for expenses and loss of wages she has incurred because 

of her dismissal. 

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for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) it is now 

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