Legal Defense Fund Sues 55 Louisiana Parishes to End School Bias

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February 20, 1965

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Press Releases, Volume 2. Legal Defense Fund Sues 55 Louisiana Parishes to End School Bias, 1965. c73f1faf-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/a1614e0a-4969-4783-8433-79cc45bbd41e/legal-defense-fund-sues-55-louisiana-parishes-to-end-school-bias. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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- New York, N.Y. 10019 

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NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 
President 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers 

Director-Counsel 
Jack Greenberg 

Associate Counsel 

Constance Baker Motley FOR RELEASE 

Saturday, 
February 20, 1965 

LEGAL DEFENSE FUND SUES 
55 LOUISIANA PARISHES 

TO END SCHOOL BIAS 

BATON ROUGE, La.---Attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, in an 

unprecedented move, filed suit against segregation in Louisiana's 

entire public school system here this week. 

All of Louisiana's 55 parishes (counties) are cited. 

The U.S. District Court received a request for a "preliminary 

and permanent injunction restraining" the State Board of Education 

of Louisiana from continuing a “racially-segregated school system." 

: This pioneering suit, which eventually seeks to speed up the 

lagging pace of school integration across the south, marks the first 

time the Legal Defense Fund has sued an entire state school system. 

The Legal Defense Fund told the court that the “enjoining of 

the use of funds to perpetuate racially-segregated school systems is 

the approach and purpose of this action. 

Legal Defense Fund attorneys are assisting the NAACP State 

Conference of branches. 

A. M, Trudeau, A. P. Tureaud, Ernest N. Morial, Jesse N. Stone, 

Lionel R. Collins and Marion O. White---all Louisiana attorneys, 

were joined by Legal Defense Fund Director-Counsel, Jack Greenberg 

and Norman C. Amaker of New York City in this suit. 

The attorneys, acting in behalf of 21 Negro children and eight 

Negro parents, asked the District Court to convene a three-judge 

court, 

Also, that the case be advanced on the docket, a speedy hearing 

held and finally, that the Court issue an order stopping the State 

Board of Education of Louisiana from maintaining jim crow schools. 

-30- 

Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Night Number 212 ide 9-8487 Ss

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