School Integration will Continue in Birmingham

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
10 COLUMBUS CIRCLE *« NEW YORK, N. Y. 10019 © JUdson 6-8397 

DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS JACK GREENBERG CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY 
President Director-Counsel Associate Counsel 

Ss 

February 28, 1964 

SCHCOL INTEGRATION WILL 
CONTINUE IN BIRMINGHAM 

BIRMINGHAM, ALA.--Forward movement of school integration was assured 
here this week when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider a 
school board effort to block desegregation. 

NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys secured some school integra- 
tion even though the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals is still con- 
sidering aspects of the case. 

SEGREGATIONISTS FAIL IN ATTEMPT 
TO THWART GA. SCHOOL INTEGRATION 

BRUNSWICK, GA.--Segregationist efforts to block voluntary school 
integration here were stymied when the U.S. Supreme Court refused 
to hear their appeal this week. 

The Glynn County, Ga. school board had agreed to integrate six 
Negro applicants to the previously all white high school before any 
suit was filed. 

However, white students sued in Federal District Court to pre- 
vent desegregation and that Court granted their request. The NAACP 
Legal Defense Fund intervened in behalf of Negro students and ap- 
pealed to the Sth Circuit Court. This Court ruled in favor of inte- 
gration, 

The segregationists appealed the latter ruling to the U.S. 
Supreme Court, which declined review, thus allowing the NAACP -Legal 
Defense Fund-won integration order to stand. 

The six Negro students are in the white schools. 

HIGH COURT UPHOLDS MIXED 
TRAVEL IN JACKSON, MISS, 

JACKSON, MISS.--Six public transportation companies here must cease 
discrimination against Negro citizens as a result of the U.S. Su- 
preme Court's refusal to hear an appeal from segregationists, 

Attorneys for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund won the favorable 
ruling in the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last October. The 
Mississippians appealed to the U.S, Supreme Court which this week 
declined to review their appeal, 

Defense Fund attorneys had to challenge Mississippi's segrega- 
tion laws in general before specific relief could be won from the 
carriers, 

Negro citizens may now enter federal courts and receive relief 
should they be further discriminated against by the companies 
Jackson City Lines, Jackson Municipal Airport Authority, Continen- 
tal Southern Lines (Trailways), Southern GreyhoundLines and the 
Illinois Central Railroad. 

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