Supreme Court Asked to Halt Southern School Integration Evasion

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October 19, 1967

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Press Releases, Volume 5. Supreme Court Asked to Halt Southern School Integration Evasion, 1967. 0e3c382d-b892-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/c73ad2ec-b870-452c-b2b3-aa462c1aece1/supreme-court-asked-to-halt-southern-school-integration-evasion. Accessed October 08, 2025.

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC 
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LDF Suit In Jackson, Tenn, Has Wide Scope 

WASHINGTON---The U.S. Supreme Court was asked today to halt evasion by 
southern school boards of integration, the resistance pattern that has 
emerged since the cays of "absolute defiance," 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) attorneys 
told the high court in t brief against the Board of Commissioners 
of Jackson, Tenn., taat school segregation is still rampant across the 
South: 

"During the 1966-67 school year, a full 12 years after Brown 
(1954 Supreme Court school integration ruling), more than 90 per cent 
of the almost three million Negro pupils in the 11 southern states 
still attended schcols which were over 95 per cent Negro," the LDF 
asserted. 

The LDF utilized services of a panel of national educational ex- 
perts in evaluating schocl segregation in Jackson, a medium-sized city 
in mid-western Tennessee. 

Jackson's policies follow "a course which perpetuates segregation 
for the overwhelming majority of Negro students while paying lip ser- 
vice to the obligation to desegreoate," the LDF maintained, 

The case provides "an especially appropriate vehicle to consider 
the general problem of evasion of the obligation to desegregate," the 
Supreme Court was told, 

LDF attorneys cited the following points to document a "systematic 
evasion of the constitutional obligation to desegregate" on the part 
of the Jackson school officials: es 

* maintained a completely compulsory segregated school system 
after the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling until sued in 1963, 

* built three new junior high schools, after 1954, "in centers of 
racially segrecated residential concentrations," 

* established school zones in 1965 "in such a way as to follow 
the patterns of racial residential segregation to the maximum 
extent possible," 

* encouraged students to transfer to school zones in which they 
would be a racial majority, 

* undertook to build an additional portion on the overcrawded 
Negro junior high "while there was still cubstantial excess 
capacity at the two all-white junior highs." 

LDF attorneys in the case include Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg, Associate Counsel James M, Nabrit ITI, and Assistant Counsel Michael Henry of the LDF's New York office; also, cooperating attorneys Avon Williams and Z, Alexander Looby of Nashville and J. Emmett Ballard of 
Jackson. 

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NOTE: The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc, (LDF) is a 
separate and distinct organization from the NAACP, serving as the legal 
arm of the entire civil rights mover t and representing members of all 
groups as well as unaffiliated individuals,

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