Fund Sues 8 Virginia Counties in School Integration Effort

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March 20, 1965

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NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 
President MME E z Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers Hopi teme es —— ’ 
Director-Counsel March 20, 1965 

Jack Greenberg 

FUND SUES 8 VIRGINIA COUNTIES 
IN SCHOOL INTEGRATION EFFORT 

RICHHIOND, VA.--A massive state-wide campaign to end racial 

disctimination in Virginia's public schools got underway here 

this. week as the NAACP Legal Defense Fund brought actions 

against eight counties. 

In the state where "massive resistance" to the 1954 

Supreme Court ruling has been both slogan and reality, Legal 

Defense Fund lawyers sought sweeping injunctions that would 

require the adoption and implementation of desegregation plans 

in Amelia, New Kent, Greenville, Charles City, Middlesex, 

Gloucester, Hanover and Brunswick Counties. 

The last named county is the home of Governor Albertis 

S. Harrison, Jr., a staunch foe of integration attempts, Two 

other counties and three Virginia cities have begun desegre- 

gation under court edicts secured by Legel Defense Fund suits. 

School boards in the eight counties were petitioned 

Vast year by scores of Negro citizens to end public school 

“segregation. When the petitions went unheeded, the court 

actions were undertaken. 

In each of the suits, Legal Defense Fund lawyers asked 4 

the Federal District Court to enjoin the school boards from: 

..efailing to implement plans providing for 
prompt integration; 

«+easSigning teachers and administrative per- 
sonnel on a racial basis; 

«+eplacing pupils in classrooms inva biased 
manner; 

++eproceeding with school construction pro- 
grams designed to perpetuate segregation. 

Suits seeking desegregation plans in numerous other 

Virginia counties are expected in the near future. 
PENS ey 

Attorneys in this week's actions are S. W. Tucker, 
Henry L. Marsh III, and Willard Douglas of Richmond; and 
James MM, Nabrit III, and Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg 

of New York City. 
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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Inf ion—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 Ss

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