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Press Releases, Loose Pages. Lucy Case back in Court, 1956. 5c4b3051-bc92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/6fa5334a-17e7-4718-838e-8104cea95f7b/lucy-case-back-in-court. Accessed December 04, 2025.

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    PRESS RELEA sf® 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
107 WEST 43 STREET «© NEW YORK 36, N. Y. © JUdson 6-8397 

ARTHUR B. SPINGARN op THURGOOD MARSHALL 
President Director and Counsel 

ROY WILKINS ROBERT L. CARTER 
Secretary Assistant Counsel 

ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS ARNOLD de MILLE 
Treasurer LUCY CASE BACK Press Relations 

IN COURT 

BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Mar. 9th.--Attorneys for Miss Autherine J. Lucy 

filed a motion today in Birmingham asking the Federal District Court to 

disregard the University of Alabama expulsion order and instruct Uni- 

versity officials to readmit the Negro student. 

The motion called upon Federal Judge H. Hobart Grooms, who origin- 

ally ordered the admittance of Miss Lucy to the University, to amend 

his order of February 29, which instructed the University to terminate 

its exclusion of Miss Lucy from the campus by 9:00 a.m., March 5, to 

provide for her readmission in time for the fall semester. 

The attorneys did not urge her immediate readmittance because of 

the time iiiss Lucy has lost as a result of the University's expulsion 

order. The lawyers termed the expulsion order "a legally ineffective 

interference with the performance of a duty incumbent on the Board 

under this Court's order," 

The suspension order was issued on February 6. Miss Lucy was 

admitted to the 125-year old University February 1, after almost l| years 

of court battles. 

Miss Lucy earlier stated that she hopes to be readmitted to the 

University of Alabama. In a statement made on March 7 she said: 

"Despite all that has happened I continue to hope, 

wish and work that I may be able to pursue my edu- 

cation at the State University of my own home state. 

But up until the present time, I have been thwarted 

in my effort to do that. Therefore, I have got to 

follow two courses: to persist in my efforts to be 

admitted to the University of Alabama next fall and 

also to make applications to other schools because 

I am sincerely interested in getting an education in 

the University of Alabama if I can, but if not, in 

another school. 

"I would hope that there are unsegregated universities in 

the Southland on whose campuses I may find welcome as a 

student."

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