Helped by Court, Negro High School Girl Completes Course in White Augusta School

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July 31, 1965

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    10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 

JUdson 6-8397 

NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 
President 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers FOR RELEASE 
Director-Counsel Saturday 

Jack Greenberg July 31, 1965 

HELPED BY COURT, NEGRO HIGH SCHOOL GIRL 
i COMPLETES COURSE IN WHITE AUGUSTA SCHOOL 

AUGUSTA, GA.--An Augusta high school girl has completed a summer 

study of algebra, thanks to a battery of NAACP Legal Defense and 

Educational Fund lawyers and a federal court. i 

Pamela Weston, who just completed the tenth grade of a private 

school near Augusta, was dissatisfied with her previous algebra 

Gaeaes: and wanted to repeat the courses in hopes of doing better, 

County Sc 

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Richmond 

ol Board to allow the girl to "enroll in such courses in 

Algebra 1 fend Algebra II as are now being offered to white studénts." 

The*Court granted the appeal of Legal Defense Fund Attornays 

John H, Ruffin Jr. of Augusta, Donald L. Hollowell of Atlanta and 

peck Greenberg and Derrick A, Bell Jr. of New York, who for more than 

& yee have been waging a court battle to integrate the county's 

Ge chgol system, a 

The Legal Defense Fund lawyers appealed a decision by the U.S. 

District Court for the Southern District of Georgia which refused to 

grant a preliminary injunction to prevent the school board from 

closing the courses in white schools to the girl. 

Miss Weston had enrolled in summer algebra courses at all 

Negro Lucy C, Laney High School in Augusta, but the courses were i 

dropped from the curriculum there when she turned out to be the “ ad 

only enrollee. When she sought to transfer to sessions in a white 

school, officials told her she would have to hire a private tutor 

because the county's desegregation plan did not apply to summer 

sessions or to the eleventh grade, 

The school system desegregated grades four, five, six and 

twelve during the past school year, 

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

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