Appeals Court School Ruling Provides New Platform for LDF Attorneys in South

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April 1, 1967

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Press Releases, Volume 4. Appeals Court School Ruling Provides New Platform for LDF Attorneys in South, 1967. 368e05b2-b792-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/977f0531-e2f1-439c-b41d-785a18f42d52/appeals-court-school-ruling-provides-new-platform-for-ldf-attorneys-in-south. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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    President 
Hon. Francis E. Rivers 

PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel 
egal efense und Jack Greenberg 

Director, Public Relations 
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. Jesse DeVore, Jr. 
10 Columbus Cireleé, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 : NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487 

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FOR RELEASE 
SATURDAY 
April 1, 1967 

APPEALS COURT SCHOOL RULING 
PROVIDES NEW PLATFORM FOR 
LDF ATTORNEYS IN SOUTH 

Greenberg Sees "Meaningful New Judicial Tools" 

NEW YORK---NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) this 
week concluded that it is now “in a position to bring about substantial 
school desegregation in the Deep South for the first time." 

LDF Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg based his observation on the 
decisive ruling this week by the twelve judges of the U.S. Fifth 
Cifcuit Court of Appeals. 

The 12-man Court seid that six southern states must integrate 
their public schools, from kindergarten up, at the start of the 
upcoming fall term, 

This ruling covers students, teachers, school transportation and 
school related activities. The’Appeals Court ruled 8 to 4, 

The Court said, in part: "School desegregation cases involve 
more than a dispute between certain Negro children and certain schools, 

"If Negroes are ever to enter the mainstream of American life, as 
school children they must have equal educational opportunities with 
white children." 

The states directly affected include Alabama, Florida, Georgia, 
Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. 

The decision came in response to reargument of nine crucial schod 
desegregation cases before the 12 judges who sat in Jacksonville, 
Florida, on March 10, 1967. 

Six of these cases were brought by LDF attorneys. 

LDF lawyers are currently representing the interests of two 
million Negro children through 175 school suits in 13 states. 

"We will now move scores of these cases, which have been resting 
in lower courts for the past year, forward," Mr. Greenberg added, 

"This sweeping decision, considered in conjunction with the LDF 
victory before a three-judge federal court in Montgomery last week-- 
which ordered desegregation of 99 Alabama school Cree eee dt carer 
that our attorneys now have meaningful new judicial tools," 
Mr. Greenberg concluded. 

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