Negroes Ask Consolidation of White and Black Schools in Sevier County, Arkansas
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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 April 27, 2025.
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160 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. a= Released to: AP, UPI - St. Louis, Little Rock ARKANSAS GAZETTE