More Integration Ordered in Louisiana

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
10 COLUMBUS CIRCLE « NEW YORK 19,N.Y. «© JUdson 6-8397 

DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS oe THURGOOD MARSHALL 
President Director-Counsel 

MORE INTEGRATION ORDERED IN LOUISIANA 

NEW ORLEANS, LA., May 4.--A federal court today denied a move by 

New Orleans school authorities to avoid compliance with a court order 

to produce a desegregation plan on May 16. 

On Friday, April 29, the same court ordered two other counties in 

Louisiana to make preparation to desegregate their public schools. 

The federal court also on Friday enjoined the Louisiana State 

Board of Education from discriminating against qualified Negro stu- 

dents seeking admission to six of the state's trade schools. 

The same court had originally on February 15, 1956, ordered the 

Orleans Parish School Board, which includes New Orleans, to proceed 

with desegregation. The school board engaged in a series of unsucces 

ful appeals and on July 15, 1959 the court instructed the school 

authorities to bring in a specific plan on May 16, 1960. The school 

authorities later asked the court to vacate its own order. The 

request was denied today and the court instructed the school board to 

pring in a desegregation plan by May 16. 

The April 29 decisions of the court involved St. Helena and East 

Baton Rouge Parishes and the Louisiana State Board of Education. The 

St. Helena case has been pending since 1951 and the East Baton Rouge 

suit was filed in 1956. Both school boards were ordered to make 

arrangements for desegregation of their school facilities. 

The order enjoining the Louisiana State Board of Education from 

discriminating against Negro students resulted from suits brought 

against the Shreveport Trade School, Southwest Louisiana Trade School 

in Crowley, Natchitoches Parish Trade School in Natchitoches, St. 

Helena Parish Trade School in Greenberg, Sowela Vocational-Technical 

Schooi in Lake Charles and Harris Trade School in Opelousas. 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorneys for the Negro 

students in these cases were A. P. Tureaud of New Orleans; Thurgood 

Marshali and Constance Baker Motley of New York City. 

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