Arthur v. Starrett City Associates Comments of the United States as Amicus Curiae on the Proposed Consent Decree

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June 28, 1984

Arthur v. Starrett City Associates Comments of the United States as Amicus Curiae on the Proposed Consent Decree preview

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  • Press Releases, Volume 5. Six Southern States Lose School Integration Fight, 1967. ce3b382d-b892-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/60b52072-c245-453b-a571-cac32925614e/six-southern-states-lose-school-integration-fight. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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President 
Hon. Francis E. Rivers 

PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel 

egal efense und Jock Greenberg | 
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irector, Public Relations 

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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