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 November 11, 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.