Greenberg Statement on GA Ct. of Appeals Ruling Against Systematic Exclusion of Negroes from Southern Juries
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July 8, 1964
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Press Releases, Volume 1. Greenberg Statement on GA Ct. of Appeals Ruling Against Systematic Exclusion of Negroes from Southern Juries, 1964. 7c337c04-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/677e6668-2784-4401-b2a9-9bb814923323/greenberg-statement-on-ga-ct-of-appeals-ruling-against-systematic-exclusion-of-negroes-from-southern-juries. Accessed November 23, 2025.
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POR 386 LD IATE RELEASE July 8, 1964
PROM: JESSE DeVORE, DEABCTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION
AELAN KNIGHT CHALMERS
: President
Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Roday issued the following statement on the sueeping Georgia Court
peecste ruling against systematic exclugion of Negroes from southern
juries.
The Court made its ruling as it revgS@ed the scons | conviction
Of Ralph Allen, a white civil sights worker, represented by Legal
Defense Fund attorneys.
Director-Counsel G berg’s stat t follows:
, “if other courts adopt the reasoning of vooteutee ste
‘te civil rights Mates elit have greater protection bowen
i tery arrests and judicial proceedings.
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Fund cases involving white rights Sacre aaa
or appealed--will also be favorably affected.
*Furthermora, wuld southern white mon bohelf o raise
amd of mee, ere 8 jury selection on behalf oe anette white
» the entire pueentee of excluding rom this
@epect Me citizenship may soon come to an end,” br, eg hE seid.
» The Georgia ruling grew out of the arrests y Be five civil rights
Mathers i in jon ons dest summer, | The youths had been held tue i
“menths in prison Ny bail + and three | of thes feced possible
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