Defense Fund Suit Challenges Teacher Discrimination

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

NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational F und 
PRESS RELEASE 

President FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers Saturday, 

Director-Counsel August 14, 1965 
Jack Greenberg 

DEFENSE FUND SUIT CHALLENGES 
TEACHER DISCRIMINATION IN NC 

GREENSBORO, N.C.--The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund has 

filed suit in Federal District Court here on behalf of a Negro 

school teacher who contends she lost her job when the schools were 

desegregated. 

The suit names Mrs, Audrey Gillis Wall and the North Carolina 

Teachers Association against the Stanley County Board of Education, » 

The Association has about 12,500 members, mostly Negro teachers iho 

North Carolina public schools. 
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Mrs. Wall, who has taught at Negro schools in Stanley County 

for 13 years, alleges that she and other Negro teachers were 

dismissed in anticipation of decreased enrollment in Negro schools | 

for the coming school year. : 

The county has adopted a "freedom of choice" integration plan 

which permits students to choose the public school they wish to 5 

attend, About 100 pupils have requested transfer from all-Negro to 

all-white schools this fall, according to Mrs, Wall's complaint. 

Legal Defense Fund attorneys, who have been pressing a legal 

battle against teacher discrimination, will ask the court for 

preliminary and permanent injunctions to prevent the school board 

from "hiring, assigning and dismissing teachers and professional 

school personnel on the basis of race and color," 

; Attorneys of record in the case are Conrad 0. Pearson of 

Durham, N.C.; J. Levonne Chambers of Charlotte, N.C.; Jack 

Greenberg, Legal Defense Fund director-counsel, and Derrick A. Bell 

Jr. of New York. 

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

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