Georgia Judge Orders School Construction Stopped as Measure Against Dual System

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GEORGIA JUDGE ORDERS 

STOPPED AS MEASURE AGAINST DUAL SYSTEM 

LDF Victory Heralds 

MACON, GA.---A Federal District 

the Bibb County 

further segregation. 

This is the 

The attorneys for the 

(LDF) who filed the motion 

as a whole, 
any existing 
vestiges of the dual system." 

Acting in pehalf 
residential 

planning to build a Negro school in further support of the 

of their charge 

in segregation, 

built in 

In support 

further result 

the school was being 

elementary school, and was 

a 

They further charged 

coeducational institution, 

traditionally separate for boys 

These factors, 

denoted such schools as 4 Negro 

substantially in perpetuating segregation." 

The LDF attorneys also took exception to the selection of the 

that the acreage is 
site on the ground 

minimum standard recommended by 

The Limited capacity of 

“entirely inadequate acreage 

impossible for the school ever to 

more than the Negro students now 

As an alternative the LDF attorneys suggested 

Board consider expanding the existing 

school site, pre sently 

Negro students from the Pleasant Hill area. 

LDF attorney Steve Ralston said that this 

"offers us the 

the south of constructing and expanding schools 

to preserve them as all-Negro or substantially all-white." school desegregation 

pattern throughout 

in a way 

New Breakthrough In School De 

Board of Education not to 

school on a particular site because this school would result in 

first time that 4 

school desegregation case has issued such an order. 

NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund 

for preliminary injunction, 

provision from the landmark Jefferson County decision, 

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that " 

shall locate any new school and substantially expand 

schools with the objectives 

of the residents of Pleasant Hill, a 

the LDF attorneys pointed out that 

being named after 

that the school was earmarked as 4 

as opposed to white 

accozding to the 

the school resulting from 

" argued the LDF attorneys, 

President 
Hon. Francis E. Rivers 

PRESS RELE! Director 
Jack Gre: enberg 

Director, Public Relations 
Jesse DeVor 
NIGHT NUMBER 212 FOR RELEASE 749-8487 

THURSDAY 

OCTOBER 26, 1967 

SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION 

segregation Battle 

judge in Georgia this week ordered 

construct a proposed high 

Federal District Court in @ 

relied on a 
in which the 

the school system 

of eradicating the 

area in the city of Macon, Georgia, 

Board of Education, of 
"dual 

that the proposed high school would 

Negro community, next to a Negro 

a Negro educator. 

schools, which are 

and girls at the high school level. 

LDF attorneys have in the past 

school, and have “contributed 

far too short of the regular 

the State Education Board. 

this 
"makes it 

be enlarged so as to accommodat= 

living in the area." 

that the school 

facilities on @ 35 acre high 

so as to accommodate the 

new breakthrough in 

first precedent to attack the 



“In the future" he continued, “we can force school Boards to 

locate schools and to plan constructions and expansion so as to 

integrate them and break down the identity of white and Negro 

schools." 
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The LDF attorneys who handled the case were: Charles Stephen 

Ralston and James Finney of New York city, and Thomas Jackson of 

Macon, Georgia. 

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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 movement and representing 

members of all groups as well as unaffiliated individuals.