Segregationists Change Minds After One Hour in Fla. Jail; Seek Speedier Integration of Negroes in Durham, N.C.

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NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund , 
PRESS RELEASE 

President mes: FOR RELEASE Dr, Allan Knight Chalmers Thursday, 
Director-Counsel 

Tack CPt eaberg October 29, 1964 
Associate Counsel 

Constance Baker Motley 

SEGREGATIONISTS CHANGE MINDS 
AFTER ONE HCURIN FLA. JAIL 

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--Two St. Augustine Florida segregationists 
spent an hour in jail here this week for refusing a request of 
an NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorney in Federal District Court. 

Legal Defense Fund lawyers asked Holsted R. Manucy to turn 
over names of the Ancient City Hunting Club, a segregationist 
group, to Judge Bryan V. Simpson. 

Manucy at first declined saying "there's no reason something 
couldn't happen to me if I did," 

Judge Simpson held Manucy and Jerome Godwin, another officer 
of the segregationist group, in contempt. Manucy was given 90 
days and Godwin 15 days with the condition that they could be 
released at any time they produced the list. 

The pair changed their minds, but spent an hour in jail 
while drawing up a list of 174 although Manucy said earlier that 
the group had 1,476 members. 

Judge Simpson announced that the proceedings would be 
continued until November 12, 1964 until a complete roster is 
handed over. 

This litigation grew out of demonstrations in St. Augustine 
this summer which were led by Rev, Martin Luther King and the 
Southern Christian Leadership conference. 

The Legal Defense Fund handles the legal work of Rev. King's 
organization. 

In actions under the Civil Rights Act this summer, Legal 
Defense Fund lawyers had charged that Manucy's group and the 
local Klu Klux Klan intimidated proprietors of restaurants and 
other public places, so that facilities opened to Negroes in 
compliance with the new law were resegregated. 

On August 7, Judge Simpson ruled in the Legal Defense Fund's 
favor and issued a temporary order requiring 17 St. Augustine 
establishments to start serving Negroes immediately. He also 
enjoined segregationists from interfering with either the white 
owners or their Negro patrons. 

Then late last month the Federal Judge made his earlier 
order a permanent injunction, At that time, Judge Simpson 
further required that Manucy divulge the names and addresses of 
all members of the Ancient City Hunting Club. 

Under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Judge Simpson held, the 
Legal Defense Fund attorneys would normally have been entitled to 
$7,000 in lawyer's fees, 

However, since this was a test case, he withheld the award, 
implying that fees would be granted in similar future instances. 

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Segregationists Change Minds -2- October 29, 1964 
After One Hour in Fla. Jail 

Legal Defense Fund lawyers Leroy D. Clark of New York, and 
cooperating attorneys Earl M. Johnson of Jacksonville, Tobias 
Simon of Miami and Murray Unger of Daytona Beach handled the 

| St. Augustine problem. 

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‘SEEK SPEEDIER INTEGRATION 
OF NEGROES. IN DURHAM, N.C, aim 

RICHMOND, VA.--The NAACP Legal Defense Fund asked th 
the Durham, North Carolina school board be ordered t 
gerrymandered school zone lines to end teacher segredgat 
to build new schools in locations that would speed integ 

District Court August ruling so as to include these new 
The U.S. Court of Appeals here was asked to oa Federal 

visions. a ‘ 
The District Court, in its August ruling, concluded’ that 

there was no need for the Durham School Board to redraw school 
zone lines since pupils can freely transfer. 4 

The Legal Defense Fund attorneys countered by pointing out 
that initial placement of Negro children, in predominantly Negro 
elementary schools, indicates that assignments are still mai é50n 
basis of race. 

The attorneys add that segregation is being carried o 
even though the Durham school board complied with a 1963 Ap 
Court order to end dual school lines. 

Negroes make up 45 per cent of the Durham school 
population. 

The Legal Defense Fund has sought an end to teacher 
crimination since 1960. Following a precedent established in 
rous school cases in the South, the Legal Defense Fund 

argues that "teacher segregation is an aspect of a school 
m which can be corrected upon the complaint of pupils and 

ents." 
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4 The brief further points out that teacher desegregation has 
— direct relevance to the integration of the student bodies, since ~ 
~ pupils have considerable choice in deciding whether or not to : 

>) apply for transfers. White students consistently transfer to 
x pocigels with all-white facilities. 

ae ae Finally, the Legal Defense Fund attorneys ask the Appeals 
Court to direct the School Board to plan its current $3.5 million 

expansion program so as to speed further integration. 

"Since this school board has for years engaged in a series 
of sophisticated segregationist schemes," Legal Defense Fund 

lawyers argue, “one would be exceedingly credulous to accept 
their unsupported assertions that they have no plan to build 
schools so as to promote segregation." 

Handling the case are Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg, 
James M. Nabrit III, and Derrick A, Bell of the Fund's New York 
City headquarters, as well as Conrad 0. Pearson, M. Hugh Thompson, 
William A, Marsh, Jr., J.H. Wheeler, and F.B. McKissick, all of 
Durham. 

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