Three Negroes Integrate Rural Louisiana School

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    10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
JUdson 6-8397 

NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational F. und 
PRESS RELEASE 
President FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers August 21, 1964 

DiraGec teaver 
ssociate Counsel 
Goi tanes Wakes Motley 

THREE NEGROES INTEGRATE 
RURAL LOUISIANA SCHOOL 

Greensburg, La.--Three Negro youngsters peacefully attended classes 

at the high school here this week, climaxing 12 years of courtroom 

battles by NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyers. 

Federal Judge E. Gordon West ordered the integration, acting 

on instructions from the Sth Circuit Court of Appeals. The high 

cart had upheld Defense Fund contentions in declaring on July 9th 

that Judge West should issue the integration decree whether or 

not St. Helena Parish school board officials submitted a desegre- 

gation plan. 

Fund attorneys Norman Amaker of New York and A.P. Tureaud of 

New Orleans expressed their satisfaction with the beginnings of 

integration in Greensburg, which is the first rural Louisiana 

parish to open its schools to Negroes. 

The suit to desegregate had first been filed in 1952, two 

years before the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown 

v. Board of Education. 

Previously, the Defense Fund had won rulings desegregating the 

school systems of New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Currently pending 

are Fund actions to speed up urban integration, and suits to de- 

segregate three other rural areas in the state. 

The three youths--Georgia Lea Gordon, 17, David Howard, 18, 

and Charles Hall, Jr., 17--started school Monday, August 17th 

without incident, as state police sent by Gov. John J. McKeithen 

kept townspeople, newsmen and photographers out of the school area. 

The Louisiana governor also issued an appeal to the residents 

of the rural parish to accept the integration regardless of their 

beliefs. School begins in August in this Delta area so that stu- 

dents are finished early enough to help with the spring strawberry 

harvest. 
pate ste 

Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 Ss

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