Greenberg Statement on Decision to Not Cut Funds to Five Southern School Districts Which Refuse to Desegregate
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January 30, 1969
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Press Releases, Volume 5. Greenberg Statement on Decision to Not Cut Funds to Five Southern School Districts Which Refuse to Desegregate, 1969. 78b7a040-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/b8329d07-a213-4da9-9609-190b5250f544/greenberg-statement-on-decision-to-not-cut-funds-to-five-southern-school-districts-which-refuse-to-desegregate. Accessed June 13, 2025.
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January 30, 1969
Statement by Jack Greenberg, Director-Counsel,
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.,
January 30, 1969.
HEW Secretary Finch's decision not to cut off federal funds
from five southern school districts which have refused to submit
adequate desegregation plans, even though they were warned to do
so almost a year ago, is disastrous.
Passage of Title VI in 1964 provided an extremely important
weapon by which southern school boards are made to comply with
the historic 1954 Brown decision requiring school desegregation.
School desegregation has multiplied since 1964 largely as a
result of Title VI.
There are presently not enough lawyers to file necessary
suits to effect broad désegregation; and, even so, court enforces
ment is not as effective as withholding of funds.
Today's action can only provide encouragement to, and harden
the resolve of, southern school officials to continue their efforts
to evade the law.
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NOTE: The Legal Defense Fund, through its network of cooperating
attorneys, is handling 225 education cases across the South
to secure compliance with the 14-year-old Brown decision.
Contributions are deductible for U.S. income tax purposes
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC
egal efense lund = 10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * 586-8397
January 30, 1969
Statement by Jack Greenberg, Director-Counsel,
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.,
January 30, 1969.
HEW Secretary Finch's decision not to cut off federal funds
from five southern school districts which have refused to submit
adequate desegregation plans, even though they were warned to do
so almost a year ago, is disastrous.
Passage of Title VI in 1964 provided an extremely important
weapon by which southern school boards are made to comply with
the historic 1954 Brown decision requiring school desegregation.
School desegregation has multiplied since 1964 largely as a
result of Title VI.
There are presently not enough lawyers to file necessary
suits to effect broad desegregation; and, even so, court enforce-
ment is not as effective as withholding of funds.
Today's action can only provide encouragement to, and harden
the resolve of, southern school officials to continue their efforts
to evade the law.
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NOTE: The Legal Defense Fund, through its network of cooperating
attorneys, is handling 225 education cases across the South
to secure compliance with the 14-year-old Brown decision.
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Contributions are deductible for U. S. income tat purposes