Announcement of K. Greenberg Statement of Policy Shift in School and Hospital Desegregation
Press Release
September 29, 1966
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Press Releases, Volume 4. Announcement of K. Greenberg Statement of Policy Shift in School and Hospital Desegregation, 1966. 47370139-b792-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/7db35384-e96a-432a-8c8e-825d691f94bd/announcement-of-k-greenberg-statement-of-policy-shift-in-school-and-hospital-desegregation. Accessed November 23, 2025.
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In response to Senate Majority Lea
that the Degpartment of Health, Education and Welfare is
going too fast in the desegregation of schools and hospitals,
Jack Greenberg, Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, will announce a major shift in the
nationwide legal program now being handled by his New York
based attorneys plus the Legal Defense Fund's 250 cooperating
attorneys. Mr. Greenberg will present substantive data to
document the position that Southern school and hospital
desegregation is moving at a snail's pace.
The conference will be held at the Fund office at 10 Columbus
Circle, Suite 2030, New York City, at 2:00 p.m. today.
phoned _ to:
AP, UPI New York
Claude Sitton, New York Times
Art Ca Afro-American xr, Baltimor
Dave Potter, Chicago -
Christian Science Monitor
Wall Street Journal
New York Post
Jet Magazine, New York
New York Daily News
Washington Post
Atlanta Constitution