Memorandum on School Desegregation Cases

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NAACP

Legal Defense and Educational Fund
PRESS RELEASE
President

ion. Francis E. Rivers

DirecosiCounest ‘
Jack Greenberg

MEMORANDUM

May 23, 1966

TO: Working Press

FROM: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

SUBJECT: School Desegregation Cases

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund lawyers this week

will ask U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals for sweeping school

desegregation decisions that could have widespread effect across

the South.

Legal Defense Fund attorneys will appear before the Fifth

U.S, Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans Tuesday and Wednesday,

May 24 and 25 to argue cases involving schools in Fairfield,

Bessemer and Jefferson County, Ala.; Baton Rouge and Caddo and

Bossier Parishes, La., and Clarksdale, Miss.

Another appeal, involving Oklahoma City, Okla., public

‘schools, will be argued Wednesday, May 25, before the Tenth

Circuit in Wichita, Kans.

School desegregation suits in all eight cases were initiated

and fought by the Legel Defense Fund.

Fund attorneys are seeking court orders that will require

affirmative action by local school boards to "completely

disestablish segregated patterns and eradicate segregated Negro

and white schools."

Desegregation of faculty and staff is sought as “a pre-

requisite for effective school desegregation,"

The Legal Defense Fund contends that "free choice provisions

of school desegregation plans approved by lower courts fall far

short of standards laid down in previous Fifth Circuit decisions

and guidelines established by the U.S. Office of Education.

Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 Sr ©

In Wichita, Fund Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg will argue

against an appeal taken by the Oklahoma City School Board. After

a Legal Defense Fund suit, the federal district court last August

ordered the school board to take affirmative action towards both

pupil and faculty desegregation. The U,S, Department of Justice

has intervened in five of the seven Fifth Circuit cases.

Appearing for the Legal Defense Fund in the Fifth Circuit

cases will be: Fairfield, Ala,--Demetrius Newton of Birmingham;

Bessemer, Ala.--Oscar W. Adams Jr. of Biminghan; Jefferson County,

Ala.--Norman C. Amaker of New York; Baton Rouge, _La.--James M,

oom III of New York; Caddo Parish, La.--Charles H. Jones, Jr.

of New pork; Bossier Parish, La.--James M, Nabrit III of New York,

and C pekedale. Miss.--Henry Aronson of Jackson.

Enclosed is a copy of an August, 1965 press release on the

Oklahgna City case for your information.

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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is neither

synonomous with ror a part of the NAACP. Established in 1939,

the Legal Defense Fund represents members of all civil rights

organizations as well as unaffiliated individuals.

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