Fund Asks Federal Court Order to Halt Raleigh Hospital Bias

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February 17, 1966

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Press Releases, Volume 3. Fund Asks Federal Court Order to Halt Raleigh Hospital Bias, 1966. 4e9f14c0-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/7ac349ff-57b2-4fa7-9e8b-7b3d3703c463/fund-asks-federal-court-order-to-halt-raleigh-hospital-bias. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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    10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
JUdson 6-8397 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 

aa. Francis E. Rivers 

Directo 

Jack Greenberg 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Thursday, 
February 17, 1966 

FUND ASKS FEDER 
TO HALT RALEIG 

AL COURT ORDER 
HOSPITAL BIAS 

RALEIGH, N. C.---Attorneys for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educa- 

tional Fund filed suit in Federal District Court here Wednesday, 

(Feb. 16) seeking to permanently enjoin Wake County Memorial 

Hospital from discriminating against Negroes. 

The suit, filed in behalf of eight Raleigh citizens, including 

two white ministers, charges that the hospital maintains a separate 

wing for Negro patients. 

Negro personnel is generally used only to staff the Negro 

wards, the suit alleges. 

The hospital's main facility in Raleigh, as well as branches in 

other parts of the county are. cited in the complaint. 

The complaint charges that the hospital has received more than 

$3 mllion in federal funds for new construction under the Hill- 

Burton Act. 

Federal courts have held that facilities receiving Hill-Burton 

funds may nat practice racial discrimination. 

The suit further allege a that the hospital is receiving 

federal funds for welfare administration, has received "substantial 

funds" from Wake County, the City of Raleigh and the State of 

North Carolina and is exempt from state and local taxes. 

Legal Defense Fund attorneys contend that discrimination in 3 

facility built and operated with public funds violates the Due 

Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the 14th Amendment, and the 

Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U. S, Constitution. 

Legal Defense Fund lawyers in the case are Samuel S, Mitchell 

and Romallus 0, Murphy of Raleigh, Conrad O, Pearson of Durham, 

J. Levonne Chambers of Charlotte, Fund Director-Counsel Jack 

Greenberg and Michael Meltsner, both of New York. 

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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Infor ion—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 Se

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