Memorandum on Federal Court Hearing in the Case of Eviction of Indigent Mother of 4 and Consequent Denial of Due Process

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March 17, 1967

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Press Releases, Volume 4. Memorandum on Federal Court Hearing in the Case of Eviction of Indigent Mother of 4 and Consequent Denial of Due Process, 1967. 365c8299-b792-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/b2a5d2a8-5788-440d-aa87-a144f29bcfc8/memorandum-on-federal-court-hearing-in-the-case-of-eviction-of-indigent-mother-of-4-and-consequent-denial-of-due-process. Accessed October 09, 2025.

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    To 

President 

Hon, Francis E. Rivers 
PRESS RELEASE Director Counsel 

egal ’fense und Jack Greenberg 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. i pee Nectar 
10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8467 

FOR RELEASE 
FRIDAY 
March 17, 1967 

MEMORANDUM 

TO: Atlanta Reporters 

FROM: Jesse DeVore, Director of Public Information 

Be U.S. Federal Court hearing March 17, 1967 in the case 
of the eviction of an indigent mother of four and 
consequent denial of due process and equal protection 
of the law. 

NATIONAL ANGLE: The same potential abuses exist in the approximately 
1400 local housing authorities with low-rent projects 
across America, 

WHERE & WHEN: Three-judge U.S. District Court for the Northern 
District of Georgia, Friday afternoon, March 17, 1967 
(likely to continue on Monday morning}, in Atlanta. 

ATLANTA---The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) 
attorneys will represent Miss Josephine Williams, an indigent mother of 
four, residing in the Perry Homes, a public housing project in Atlanta, 
Georgia, on Friday in the U.S. District Court here. 

LDF attorneys Howard Moore and Charles H, Jones, Jr. will maintain 
that Miss Williams was denied due process and equal protection of the 
law as a result of the eviction proceedings lodged against her by 
officials of Perry Homes. 

They will argue that Miss Williams had no hearing before her evic- 
tion and that her inability to post a large cash bond before she could 
defend the eviction in a state court denied her equal protection avail- 
able to the more affluent. 

In order to present the involved sequence of events, we cite the 
following chronologically: 

12/8/66: Officials of the Atlanta Housing Authority filed a summary 
eviction notice against Miss Williams, 

12/12/66: LDF attorneys filed a motion to defend Miss Williams in 
Fulton County Civil Court without posting bond, 

2/28/67: Fulton County Civil Court denied LDF motion, 
2/28/67: LDF attorneys filed motion for a stay of Miss Williams' 

eviction in the Fulton County Civil Court. 
2/28/67: LDF attorneys filed motion for stay of eviction with the 

Georgia Supreme Court, 
3/4/67: LDF attorneys pre-filed application for stay of eviction with 

Mr. Justice Black of the U.S. Supreme Court. 
3/8/67: Fulton County Civil Court denied LDF motion for a stay of 

Miss Williams' eviction. 
3/8/67: Georgia Supreme Court denied motion for stay of eviction. 
3/8/67: Mr. Justice Black denied LDF application for stay of eviction 
3/8/67: Mr. Justice Brennan of the U.S. Supreme Court denied LDF 

application for stay of eviction, 
3/9/67: LDF attorneys filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for 

the Northern District of Georgia seeking a temporary 
restraining order and a complaint for a preliminary and per- 
manent injunction, 

3/9/67: The U.S. District Court granted LDF attorneys a temporary 
restraining order blocking the eviction of Miss Williams, and 
set hearing for March 17, 1967, 

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