NAACP Legal Defense Attorneys Move Forward

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March 6, 1964

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
TO COLUMBUS CIRCLE + NEWYORK19,N.Y. © JUdson 6-8397 

DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS JACK GREENBERG CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY 
President Director-Cownsel Associate Counsel 

BREAKTHROUGH IN MISS. 
SCHOOL BIGOTRY SCORED 

NAACP Legal Defense Attorneys Move Forward 

March 6, 1964 

JACKSON, MISS.--Another crack in Mississippi's wall of segregation 
was scored here this week when three school boards were told to sub- 
mit school integration plans by July 15th. 

Attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund won a preliminary in- 
junction, from U.S, District Court Judge Sidney C. Mize, affecting 
all white schools in Jackson, Biloxi and Leake County, Mississippi. 

Judge Mize decreed that their integration plans must include a 
minimum of one grade integration a year. Legal Defense Fund attor- 
neys were thus able to score a major step toward integration here. 

Derrick Bell of New York City, Lega]. Defense Fund assistant 
counsel who is arguing the case, said that 63 Negro children are 
involved. 

Among them are Darrell Kenyatta and Reene Denise Evers, children 
of slain NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers. 

Mr. Bell is being assisted by Legal Defense Fund cooperating 
attorneys R. Jess Brown and Jack Young, both of Jackson, Miss.

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