Arthur v. Starrett City Associates Comments of the United States as Amicus Curiae on the Proposed Consent Decree
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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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42 President Hon. Francis E. Rivers PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel egal efense und Jock Greenberg | S' = ee } 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. =30=