Negroes Ask Consolidation of White and Black Schools in Sevier County, Arkansas
                    Press Release
                        
                    October 3, 1968
                
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Press Releases, Volume 5. Negroes Ask Consolidation of White and Black Schools in Sevier County, Arkansas, 1968. b389ff03-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/b6f583be-9481-4807-aac3-2de222fc7fe4/negroes-ask-consolidation-of-white-and-black-schools-in-sevier-county-arkansas. Accessed November 04, 2025.
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October 3, 1968 RELEASE 
Sevier County, Arkansas, Negroes today asked the U.S. 
Court of Appeals in St. Louis to consolidate their school 
district with the white Lockesburg district "which virtually 
encircles it." NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. 
(LDF) lawyers told the court that the two districts' 12-grade 
schools are but one-half mile apart; buses of each district 
travel the same roads; each graduates much less than the 
recommended minimum of 100 per high school class; both school 
facilities could be used after the merger; and education would 
be improved if one school were made an elementary and the other 
a high school. LDF attorneys added that "Sevier District No.1 
was created as an all-Negro district" and "has purposefully 
been maintained as such." 
For further information, contact LDF cooperating attorney 
John Walker in Little Rock at 501-Fr 4-7860. 
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