Grenada, Mississippi School Integration Suit (Telegram)

Press Release
September 13, 1966

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  • Press Releases, Volume 4. Grenada, Mississippi School Integration Suit (Telegram), 1966. f8df0e27-b792-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/bd96f55a-03ab-480e-9408-d17157e93a2b/grenada-mississippi-school-integration-suit-telegram. Accessed July 09, 2025.

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NAACP Legal Defense and | 
Educational Fund, Inc 

Send the following message, subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to 

SEPTEMBER 13, 1966 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND LAWYER HENRY ARONSON, WHO WAS SEVERELY 

BEATEN THIS MORNING IN THE STREETS OF GRENADA WHILE POLICE OFFICIALS 

STOOD BY, WILL APPEAR IN FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT IN OXFORD, MISS, 

TOMIGHT BEFORE JUDGE CLAUDEGCLAYTON. ATTORNEY ARONSON WILL ASK 

THAT NEGRO STUDENTS BE PROTECTED AS THEY INTEGRATE GRENADA SCHOOLB 

IN KEEPING WITH A PREVIOUSLY WON LEGAL DEFENSE FUND SCHOOL INTEGRATION 

SUIT, THE TELEPHONE NUMBER OF MR. ARONSON'S JACKSON OFFICE IS 

601-948-7301, 

JESSE DEVORE 
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION 
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

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