LDF Suit Charges Bias in Federally Aided County Nursing Home in Alabama

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November 4, 1966

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    10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
JUdson 6-8397 

NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educat:onal Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 

OFieun Beanie Es Rivers 
Director-Counsel 

Jack Greenberg 
FOR RELEASE 
FRIDAY 
November 4, 1966 

LDF SUIT CHARGES BIAS IN FEDERALLY 
AIDED COUNTY NURSING HOME IN ALABAMA 

Motion Filed to Compel Defendant to Follow 
Anti-Bias Guidelines Under Federal Aid Programs 

BIRMINGHAM---Lawyers for the Legal Defense Fund have filed a suit this 
morning in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of 
Alabama enjoining the Ketona County Nursing Home from continuing their 
discriminatory practices against Negro patients residing in the area. 

The nursing home, a non-profit charitable organization, is owned 
and financed by Jefferson County for the purpose of providing a place 
for "all citizens of Jefferson County to receive rest, recuperation, 
rehabilitation and medical services." 

Legal Defense Fund lawyers have filed this “class action" suit in 
behalf of the Negro residents of Jefferson County. 

The attorneys for the plaintiffs pointed out in the suit that, 
under the Fourteenth and the Fifth Amendments, the Negro residents in 
Jefferson County also qualify to obtain medical and hospitalization 
attention as provided by the defendant nursing home without discrimina- 
tion on the basis of race and color. 

The Fund lawyers further invoked the jurisdiction of the Court 
under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and charged the de- 
fendant nursing home with receiving substantial funds from the U.S. 
Government for welfare administration, public assistance, and voca-~ 
tional administration as payment for services rendered recipients. 

Nursing homes that receive funds through federally aided programs, 
such as Medicare or state welfare programs, are covered by Title VI 
of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 

Title VI prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or 
national origin in any program receiving federal financial assistance. 

The defendant nursing home is charged in the suit for maintainira 
"separate buildings,” administering separate treatment for Negro and 
white patients suffering from the same ailment, and employing Negro 
nurses, clerks, and technical personnel only in buildings reserved for 
Negro patients. 

This suit is the first of its kind filed against a public nursince 
home. 

The Legal Defense Fund attorneys handling this case are Demetrius 
Newton of Birmingham, and Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg, Michael 
Meltsner, and Bobby Hill of New York. 

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

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