NAACP Legal Defense Attorneys Move Forward
Press Release
March 6, 1964

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PRESS RELEASE 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.