LDF Attorneys Argue 11 Cases in 10 Days

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Press Releases, Volume 4. LDF Attorneys Argue 11 Cases in 10 Days, 1966. f2750309-b792-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/782bfb0c-f439-4f04-bba0-86152d5f4e01/ldf-attorneys-argue-11-cases-in-10-days. Accessed June 17, 2025.

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NEW YORK----NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorneys 

this week mopped their brows as they completed a hectic 10 

days that included Memorial Day court appearances while most 

of the rest of the country was enjoying the holiday. 

Eleven cases that could have far reaching effects on 

Negroes throughout the country were argued in a ten-day period 

beginning May 24. 

A sextet of Legal Defense Fund lawyers was in New 

Orleans May 24 and 25 to argue seven vital cases involving 

school desegregation, while Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg 

went to Wichita, Kans., May 25 to argue another school case. 

Before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New 

Orleans was Associate Counsel James M. Nabrit, III arguing 

cases involving Bossier and East Baton Rouge Parishes, La. 

Staff Attorneys Norman C, Amaker and Charles H. Jones, 

Jr. of New York argued cases involving schools in Jefferson 

County, Ala., and Caddo Parish, La., respectively. 

Cooperating Attorneys Oscar Adams and Demetrius Newton 

of Birmingham, made representations in cases involving Bessemer 

sand Fairfield, Ala., respectively. Staff Attorney Henry Aronson 

,of Jackson, Miss., appeared in behalf of the Clarksdale school 

‘integration case. 

The Legal Defense Fund lawyers were goxned by the U.S. 

Justice Department in five of the New Orleans es: . They 

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