United States v. Amite County Notice to Set Hearing and File Response

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May 22, 1970

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  • Press Releases, Volume 3. J. Greenberg on Norfolk School Desegregation Plan, 1966. 0e5f50d8-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/02b72f07-244d-4bef-b448-593298c953d2/j-greenberg-on-norfolk-school-desegregation-plan. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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    nent by Jack Greenberg, Director-Counsel 
Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Int, 

olumbus. Circle, Suite 2030, New York, New York 
rch 17,1966 

STATEMENT ON NORFOLK SCHOOL DESEGREGATION: PLAN 

approval of a negotiated ttlement of the Norfolk 

egregation suit is an encouraging example of what 

can be accomplished if the parties to asxhool desegregation 

tically face up to the issue and meet to settle 

eNnceSe 

We are particularly gratified by the pledge of the super- 

endent of schools not only to recruit and assign teachers 

inistrative personnel without regard to race, but to 

take affirmative action to ensure integrated faculties in all 

Norfolk schools. 

By establishing a system of non-racial school attendance 

zones, the school board is. providing a real opportunity for 

all the city's children=-Negro and white--to enjoy the benefits 

gregated education, 

More than 10 years of litigation of this suit in the 

ral District Court. and:the Circuit Court of Appeals has 

an expensive and time-consuming burden on the NAACP 

Legal Defense Fund, ‘as attorneys for the plaintiffs; the City 

lk and the Us S.*Department of Justice, which recently 

intervened in behalf of the plaintiffs. 

We hope the outcome of this case will set an example 

for the other 180 communities in which the Legal Defense Fund 

has school desegregation suits pending. 

ele 

PHONED TO: AP 

UPI Washington Post 
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot New York Times

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