NAACP Legal Defense Fund in Broad Attack on Louisiana School Bias

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March 20, 1965

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Press Releases, Volume 2. NAACP Legal Defense Fund in Broad Attack on Louisiana School Bias, 1965. 394cf1c7-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/a29c3f8e-399d-49c4-a449-29ac223ef0f4/naacp-legal-defense-fund-in-broad-attack-on-louisiana-school-bias. Accessed December 04, 2025.

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    10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 

/ JUdson 6-8397 

NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational F und. 
PRESS RELEASE FOR RELEASE 

President Saturday, 
Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers March 20, 1965 

Director-Counsel 
Jack Greenberg 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND IN BROAD ¥ 
ATTACK ON LOUISIANA SCHOOL BIAS 

NEW ORLEANS, LA.--- "In reply to your letter of February 8, 1965, 
it is true that we operate the Jefferson Davis Parish School ona |. 
racially segregated basis, and we plan to continue to do so until ~ 
such time that we are served a court order to do otherwise." 

After NAACP Legal Defense Fund Attorney, A. P. Tureaud, 
New Orleans, received this response from Ben Lee Phillips, president, 
and J. C. Neely, secretary-treasurer, of the Jefferson Davis school 
board, Legal Defense Fund court action was stepped-up to bring 
school desegregation to this Delta state this week. 

In addition to filing a motion with the Federal District — 
Court, asking that Louisiana state board of education be enjoined 
from allotting all funds to any school system whichis segregated, 
separate parishes are being sued. 

Representing 117 young students from four parishes, including 
Baton Rouge, the state capital, the Legal Defense Fund is asking the 
Federal District Court for extensive injunctive relief against those 
school boards which admit to or do not deny operating segregated 
school systems. 

Defendants in the cases are the officials of the Pointe Coupe, 
Lafayette, Jefferson Davis and St. Landry parish school boards. 

The court has been asked to enjoin the school boards from: 

«.-operating compulsory biracial school systems. 

«..maintaining a dual pattern of school zones based on race 

«+eassigning professional personnel on the basis of color. 

...disbursing funds in a discriminatory manner. 

As an alternative to the injunction, NAACP Legal Defense Fund 
Attorneys have suggested that the court require the various school 
boards %to submit a plan for total desegregation. The enactment of 
the plan, it was asked, should be supervised by the court. 

Attorneys for the Legal Defense Fund are A. P. Tureaud, 
A. M, Teudeau, Ernest N. Morial, all of Louisiana, and Norman C, 
naker, and Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg, New York City. 

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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public I ‘Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 

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