Greenberg Statement on Green v. County School Board of New Kent County, VA.

Press Release
December 11, 1967

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  • Press Releases, Volume 5. Greenberg Statement on Green v. County School Board of New Kent County, VA., 1967. a60ddc51-b892-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/ae2ba4af-8c7a-43fa-b5dd-5748b269ff85/greenberg-statement-on-green-v-county-school-board-of-new-kent-county-va. Accessed October 08, 2025.

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Statement by Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) 
December 11, 1967 

Re: Case of Green v y_ School Board of New 
Kent County, Vi Supreme Court agreed 
to hear. 

This is one of a number of cases in which we are asking the 

courts to look at the substance rather than the form of desegregation 

plans. So called freedom of choice, by which children select their 

own schools, which then end up almost all Negro or all white, is a 

frequently used southern mode of reorganization to meet the Supreme 

Court's School Segregation decisions. We hope that the courts will 

| examine the consequences of free Choice and that the decisions will 

lead to true educational equality.

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