U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Faculty Integration Issue

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Press Releases, Volume 6. U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Faculty Integration Issue, 1969. ca48b35e-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/9caaf09d-edf8-4e08-aec6-17c75124479d/us-supreme-court-to-hear-faculty-integration-issue. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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. President 

Hon. Francis E. Rivers 

PRESS RELE. Director-Counsel 
Jack Greenberg 

Director, Public Relations 
Jesse DeVore, Jr. 
NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487 

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. 
10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 

FOR PRESS RELEASE 

March 25, 1969 

U.S. SUPREME COURT TO HEAR 

FACULTY INTEGRATION ISSUE 

Legal Defense Fund Ask for Ratio Plan 

Washington,D.C.---The U.S. Supreme Court said this week it would 
hear this term an appeal by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 
Fund, Inc. to desegregate southern school faculties. 

The Legal Defense Fund will raise the faculty desegregation 
issue in its appeal of a Montgomery County, Alabama school case. 
The case would otherwise have been delayed until next court term 
had it not been moved up. 

LDF will ask the high court to rule in favor of assigning 
Negro teachers to schools according to the ratio of black and white 
teachers in school districts as a whole. 

In other words, LDF official explained, if the ratio of black 
and white teachers in a district is 40:30, each school faculty in 
that district should be the same. 

The Legal Defense Fund says this is the only practical way to 
push faculty desegymgation beyond tokenism in recalcitrant districts; 
and that unless the plan is implemented, faculties will remain 
virtually segregated. 

If the court approves the plan, LDF says, the way will be 
opened to eliminate all-black and all-white schools, already out- 
lawed by the Supreme Court. 

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NOTE: Though the LDF was once a part of the National Association 
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) it now is a 
separate organization, even though the initials are retained 
in its title. 

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