LDF Attorneys Argue 11 Cases in 10 Days
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June 4, 1966

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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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10 Columbus Circle New York, N.Y. 10019 JUdson 6-8397 ‘i NAACP Legal Defense and Educational F und : r PRESS _ELEASE_ Predaui ae Dri’ ie ee Knight caditieee eG: Greene 03" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “=. ~ SATURDAY : June 4, 1966 Pas LDF ATT, Th ils, bs 11 CASES IN 10 DAYS = 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 Pee jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 > Q een