Superintendent Donovan to Appear in NY Supreme Court Case on Suspension Discrimination

Press Release
May 6, 1969

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  • Press Releases, Volume 6. Superintendent Donovan to Appear in NY Supreme Court Case on Suspension Discrimination, 1969. 1e0da576-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/7d11dd4b-c10d-4ad7-b55f-d5b4be2e7b4d/superintendent-donovan-to-appear-in-ny-supreme-court-case-on-suspension-discrimination. Accessed April 29, 2025.

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    New York school superintendent Dr. Bernard E. Donovan and three Manhattan 
elementary teachers, including one member of the United|Teachers/Federation, 
have been ordered to appear tomorrow morning (Wednesday) at 9:30 in New York 
County Supreme Court to answer for the suspension and denial of readmission 
of an 11 year-old sixth grade Negro boy to P.S. 145. 

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., acting on behalf of: the 
student, Douglas Harrison and his mother Dorothy Harrison, won a show cause. 
order in the Supreme Court of the State of New York last Friday, May 2. 

Teachers ord ed to appear at the hearings are UFT member Robert §. Astrowski 
Roberta A. Russell, and Shirley Wasserman. Superintendent of local district 
no. five, Nathan Jacobson has also been ordered to appear at the hearing. 

Legal Defense i attorneys charge that Harrison was denied readmission on th 
basis of a special circular incorporated in a contract between the UFT and th 
Board of Educatio: 

this circular es da ablished an illegal procedure for the 

suspension of children now in th ie 

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public schools. 

William McPhatter 

Public Information Department 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 

Fund, Inc. 

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