Greenberg Telegram to Keppel on Teacher Firing

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Press Releases, Volume 2. Greenberg Telegram to Keppel on Teacher Firing, 1965. fe7cd210-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/7bde9d89-3122-4ee4-a98a-d084839fe31d/greenberg-telegram-to-keppel-on-teacher-firing. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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HON. FRANCIS KEPPEL
U.S, COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE
OFFICE OF EDUCATION
WASHINGTON, D. C,

Immiment prospect of wholesale dismissal of hundreds of Negro teachers “-
in North Carolina requires immediate action under Title VI of the Civil
Rights Act. Situation arises out of so called freedom of choice plans As
whereby the only integration Negro students can obtain is by transfer from

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Negro to white schools. In some communities Negro children have transferred
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out to white schools leaving oversupply of teachers in Negro schools.
Elsewhere Negro schools have been closed. This creates cruel dilemma for
Negro parents who to obtain integration for their children must create
situation in which the Negro teacher who is a mainstay of the Negro community
faces loss of employment. ‘

United States Constitution and Title VI require integration of teaching
staff as well as of pupils. Staff integration means hiring as well as
dismissal without regard to race. We request that Title VI approvals of
school districts using freedom of choice be held up or withdrawn unless
genuine teacher integration precedes transfers. Once jobs are lost they
will not be regained.
as they fire Negroes.

The offending districts are hiring new white teachers
The only way to achieve real integration is to assign

pupils and teachers to schools without regard to race.
communities where Negro teachers face dismissal include:

North Carolina
Asheboro, Randolph

County, Albemarle, Gaston County, Morganton, Pitt County, Lenoir County,
Hickory, Transylvania County, Ee City, Asheville, Polk County, Orange
County, Person County, Buncombe County. Other Districts likely to be affected
include Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, Pender County, Washington County,
Carteret County, Yancey County, Pamlico County, Caswell County, Caldwell
County, Jones County, Rockingham County, Robeson County, Whiteville, Columbus
County, New Hanover County, Brunswick County.

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