Correspondence from Winner to Guinier, Suitts, Klein, and Williams

Correspondence
June 3, 1982

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  • Press Releases, Volume 1. Seek Integration of Fla. Reform Schools, 1964. 92e68266-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/b6a45365-393a-43a9-be0c-d8028848cf75/seek-integration-of-fla-reform-schools. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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MEMORANDUM 

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November - 1964 
TO: FLORIDA EDITORS 

FROM: Jesse DeVore, Director of Public Information 

RE: Florida Reform School Integration 

NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys today renewed = 

their drive to integrate four Florida teform schools 
by filing briefs for argument in the United States. Court, 
of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, sitting in New, Orleans. 

This is the nation's second action on record in which 
reform-school discrimination has been attacked. The first 

z case took place in Maryland. 

+5 Legal Defense Fund attorneys argue that: 

White and Negro youths are separated. 

Certain school courses and recreational 
facilities are made available to whites, 
but denied to Negroes. 

Staff members and other employees are 
assigned on the basis of race. 

a The four institutions under attack are: Florida School 

2 for Girls at Forest Hill; Florida School for Girls at Ocala; 

A Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee; and Florida School for 

i Boys at Marianna, Florida. 

This action grew out of six-month reform school terms 
given four juveniles for participating in sit-in demonstra 

tions in St. Augustine on July 18, 1963. They were released 

on January 16, 1964, having been held for nearly 7 months. * 

The suit was originally filed while the youngsters were still 

i in the reform schools. : 

This is the record confinement for a sit-in demonstration. 

Adults arrested at the same time were freed on bail, which 

was denied the juveniles. eae 

25 Contributions are deductible for U. S. Income Tax Purposes

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