LDF Attorneys Prevent Gov. Wallace (Alabama) from Implementing an Act of the Legislature Designed to Thwart School Desegregation

Press Release
September 5, 1967

LDF Attorneys Prevent Gov. Wallace (Alabama) from Implementing an Act of the Legislature Designed to Thwart School Desegregation preview

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  • Press Releases, Volume 5. LDF Attorneys Prevent Gov. Wallace (Alabama) from Implementing an Act of the Legislature Designed to Thwart School Desegregation, 1967. 2de2df14-b892-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/917958c6-c291-446a-8b21-849fcc90da44/ldf-attorneys-prevent-gov-wallace-alabama-from-implementing-an-act-of-the-legislature-designed-to-thwart-school-desegregation. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. 

President 

Hon. Francis E. Rivers 

PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel 
egal efense lund Jack Greenberg 

Director, Public Relations 
Jesse DeVore, Jr. 

10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487 

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September 5, 1967 

Attorneys for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund today 
succeeded in preventing Governor Wallace from implementing an 
act of the legislature designed to thwart school desegregation 
in Alabama. 

Governor Wallace of Alabama, on September first, signed into 
law, a bill requiring each public school student to designate 
the race of his teacher (ACT No, 285). 

The Fund attorneys argued that this bill was designed to circum- 
vent a decision of the three-judge federal court rendered in 
March desegregating all the schools of the state. This suit had 
also been brought by the Legal Defense Fund. 

On September second, the Fund attorneys requested an injunction 
from the federal court against the enforcement of the act, which 
was granted today. 

For further information contact Fred Gray, Montgomery, Alabama 
(205-263-9360); Melvyn Zarr, New York (212-JU6-8397). 

Statement sent via telephone to News Desk of Associated Press and 
United Press International, both in Birmingham, Alabama. 

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