Wallace Contempt Suit (Telegram)

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Press Releases, Volume 4. Wallace Contempt Suit (Telegram), 1966. 13f20833-b792-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/c901831e-08f8-4621-8624-f9a01d72337a/wallace-contempt-suit-telegram. Accessed December 07, 2025.

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September 22, 1966 

INTGOMERY, ALA=+-Legal Defense Fund attorneys today filed a three-point 
ontempt suit against Gov. George C. Wallece of Alabama in the U.S, 

District Court in Montgomery. 
a The attorneys, acting on behalf of a group of school children and 
their parents, have requested the three-judge federal court to enter an 
rder citing Gov. Wallace for civil contempt of the Court. 

5 They argue that Gov. Wallace is in contempt of the federal court 
rder of July 13, 1964 which enjoined Wallace from interfering with or 
bstructing desegregation in the State of Alabama. 

The suit charges the Governor with playing an instrumental role in 
etting the Alabama State Legislature to enact a bill (H.446) with the 
ole purpose of nullifying school desegregation efforts of local public 
chool officials in Alabama. 

Gov. Wallace is also charged in the suit with making official state= 
ments threatening to use the State Police power against local school 
boards which are in the process of achieving faculty and student desegregation. 

The Fund lawyers have, in the alternative, submitted a plea that the 
Court enter a further injunctive order against Gov. Wallace. 

The attorneys ask that Wallace be restrained from enforcing the Act 
H,.446 and he be further held responsible for the elimination of racial 
discrimination in all the public schools in the State of Alabama. 

They further ask that Gov. Wallace be required to cut off state aid 
ee school boards not taking affirmative steps to desegregate their 
schools. 

The Legal Defense Fund attorneys involved in the case are Jack 
Greenberg, Norman Amaker, Charles Jones, Stephen Ralston, Melvyn Zarr, 
and Henry Aronson, all of the main office in New York, and Fred D. Gray, 
of Montgomery, Alabama. 

Jesse DeVore 
Director of Public Information 
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND 
10 Columbus Circle 
New York, New York 

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