Negroes Ask Federal Mississippi Court to Order End to Firings and Evictions

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February 11, 1966

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Press Releases, Volume 3. Negroes Ask Federal Mississippi Court to Order End to Firings and Evictions, 1966. 1f9f14c0-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/95d8d4b9-30de-481e-8705-d1ae92b4562d/negroes-ask-federal-mississippi-court-to-order-end-to-firings-and-evictions. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 
President FOR RELEASE 

Hon. Francis E. Rivers Friday, 
February ll, 1966 Director-Counsel 

Jack Greenber; 

NEGROES ASK FEDERAL MISS, 
COURT TO ORDER END TO 

Greenville Air Porte Bare “Gli tnners" Among Plaintiffs 
VICKSBURG, Miss.---Negro parents and children of nearby Sharkey and 

Issaquena counties today asked the U. S. District Court here to 

order an end to a reign of firings and evictions. 

White landlords and employers are charged with firing adults 

and evicting families who sought school integration in accordance 

with an earlier court ruling. 

Some of the Negro plaintiffs were among those who sought 

food and shelter at de-activated Greenville Air Farce Base two weeks 

ago. 

The suit was brought by attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense 

and Educational Fund, Inc. 

Legal Defense Fund lawyers assert that the number of whites 

participating in the harassment campaign is "so numerous as to 

make it impracticable to bring them all individually before the 

court." 

The Negroes seek “injunctive relief against the defendants 

(whites) restraining them from conspiring to, and from performing 

acts of intimidation and harassment." 

The Negroes also asked the court to order the landlords and 

employers "to undue their past illegal acts by making the plaintiff 

whole; in cases of wrongful discharges, plaintiffs should be 

awarded back pay; in cases of wrongful evictions, plaintiffs should 

be compensated for injuries sustained." 

The same court ordered integration of Sharkey Issaquena 

schools in May of 1965 as result of the suit of Jeremiah Blackwell 

and others against the county school boards. ; 

The Boards subsequently filed desegregation plans, which, 

after extended hearings, were accepted. 

Negroes began to enroll; and, the intimidations began, 

Legal Defense Fund attorneys in the new suit are Carsie A, 
Hall, Henry M. Aronson and Marian Wright, Jackson, Miss.; Jack 
Hep cOpebses eer << cor ceounsels Derzick A, Bell, Jr. and Melvyn Zarr of 

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

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