Appeals Court Hears Defense Fund Attack Teacher Segregation

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November 5, 1964

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Press Releases, Volume 1. Appeals Court Hears Defense Fund Attack Teacher Segregation, 1964. b4e68266-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/b79996e9-3906-45a1-91fd-1ee4cf22a7fa/appeals-court-hears-defense-fund-attack-teacher-segregation. Accessed October 09, 2025.

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NAACP. 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE Paes 
President FOR RELEASE Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers Thireda 
Director-Counsel ~ Tack Cocouihexy November 5, 1964 

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NAACP Legal Defense Fun 

Both appeals grew out of attempts by North Carolina Negroes..to 
speed the desegregation process in Statesville and Buncombe County. 
Legal Defense Fund lawyers James M, Nabrit III and Derrick A. Bell, 
Jr. presented the arguments today. 

The Legal Defense Fund attorneys have-both specialized in 
school desegregation cases for many years, in addition to their 
efforts to defend peaceful demonstrators, to end segregation in 
hospitals, public facilities, and urban renewal projects and to 
secure the enforcement of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. 

Teacher assignment on the basis of race has been repeatedly 
declared unconstitutional by other Federal Courts. Last spring 
the U.S. Supreme Court upheld this view when it refused to consider 
a similar case from Florida, thus supporting the Legal Defense 
Fund's contention teacher segregation has ill effects on both the 
pupils and their mentors, 

The Statesville and Buncombe County cases are among 93 school 
suits currently on the Legal Defense Fund docket. In each of the 
cases argued today, issues other than teacher segregation were 
considered as well, 

In the Statesville action, Legal Defense Fund lawyers 
challenged a lower court ruling that allowed the school board to 
continue its policy of requiring Negroes to request transfers and 
delaying action on numerous pending requests. This policy includes 
the maintenance of dual school zones, a practice declared un- 
constitutional five times by the Fourth Circuit in the last five 
years, 

In Buncombe County, where token integration is underway as in 
Statesville, the Legal Defense Fund asked the Appeals Court to upset 
a lower court order postponing high school desegregation. Buncombe 
County has no high school for Negroes, who comprise but 24 per cent 
of the school population. 

Negroes of high school age have for years been forced to 
attend a segregated school in Asheville. Legal Defense Fund 
lawyers told the Court that in many instances this assignment : 
involves trips of over 30 miles per day. ; i 

Joining attorneys Nabrit and Bell for the Legal Defense Fund 
were Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg, and Melvyn Zarx of New York; 
and J. LeVonne Chambers, Conrad O, Pearson, €alvin L. Brown, 
Ruben J. Dailey, and Robert L. Harrell, all of North Carolina, 

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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 Ss

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