Telegram to Ramsey Clark Asking Investigation of the Case of 2 Negro Students in All White School in Worth County, Georgia Who Were Arrested

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Press Releases, Volume 5. Telegram to Ramsey Clark Asking Investigation of the Case of 2 Negro Students in All White School in Worth County, Georgia Who Were Arrested, 1969. e3ada33a-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/09a0ca7d-ce82-4772-b1b4-52e42bea0fa3/telegram-to-ramsey-clark-asking-investigation-of-the-case-of-2-negro-students-in-all-white-school-in-worth-county-georgia-who-were-arrested. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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Jamuary 7, 1969

The Honorable Ramsey Clark
Attorney General of the United States
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.

Yvonne and Dorothy Young, age 1I and 14 respectively, two of first Negro
students to’ attend previously all-white. schools of Worth County, Georgia,
arrested from classrooms charged with delinquency on Dec. 4,.1968.. Public
profanity and fighting on school bus were alleged basis of charges.
Parents of girls informed of children's-detention via note given to
another child by school principal. - Parents highly identified in-community
as civil rights activists. Principal's note told parents to speak with
sheriff concerning details of arrest. Sheriff refused to disclose where
children were jailed or why. LDF attorney C.B:Kimg learned by calling
Superior Court Judge J. Bouie Gray of Tifton, Gas, the next day that
children were detained at Youth Development Center, Albany, Ga. Parents
denied permission to see children for additional three days. Children
were released into custody of parents on Dec. 11, six days after arrest,
pending conclusion of proceedings. Both children ‘convicted of “delinquency and neglect" on Dec. 28. Yvonne released in custody of parents on rigid probationary terms. Dorothy sentenced to one year in detention home.
She is still confined. She was denied bail pending appeal.

The Black Humanitarian Society organized marches and pickets to protest
arrest of sisters. Demonstrations resulted in closing of all five Negro
schools in Worth County. At the same time, predominantly white schools were initially kept open. Groups of whites discharged firearms in and
about Young home on three different occasions on Dec. 31. Unexploded molotov cocktail also found-near Young home on same day: LDF believes arrest of two Young children, closing of all-Negro schools and violence directed at Young family perpetrated for purpose and will have effect of harassing, intimidating, and preventing Youngs and other members of black
community from exercising their civil rights, particularly desegregating
public school system, unless your department takes substantial counter
Measures. Accordingly, LDF requests that Justice Dept. immediately order
thorough investigation of these matters. Also request filing of approp-
riate civil and criminal actions to protect civil rights of Young family
and black community of Wath County, Ga.

: Jack Greenberg, Esq.
Director-Counsel

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Letter from Lani Guinier to Prof. Elizabeth Bartholet

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