Ask Immediate End of Prince Edward Bias Schools

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
107 WEST 43 STREET »+ NEW YORK 36, N. Y. «© JUdson 6-8397 

ARTHUR B. SPINGARN oa THURGOOD MARSHALL 
President Director and Counsel 

ROY WILKINS ROBERT L. CARTER 
Secretary Assistant Counsel 

ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS ARNOLD de MILLE 
Treasurer Press Relations 

ASK IMMEDIATE END OF 
PRINCE EDWARD BIAS SCHOOLS April 26, 1956 

RICHMOND, VA.--NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorneys 

asked the Federal court this week to order the Prince Edward School 

Board to make an immediate start toward desegregation of its public 

schools. The court was also urged to set the September term as a 

deadline when integration should start. 

The request was made in a motion filed Monday with the Federal 

District Court in behalf of several Negro students and their parents. 

The motion called upon the court to issue a permanent injunction pro- 

hibiting Prince Edward school officials from using race as the basis 

of determining admission to the public secondary schools, and to 

order the School Board to file "interim reports" showing the plans 

and steps taken toward compliance with the May 31, 1955 Supreme Court 

implementation decree, 

Prince Edward County was a defendant in the school segregation 

cases decided by the U. S, Supreme Court in May, 1954. School offi- 

cials have since openly declared that they will close the schools 

rather than comply with the Court's mandate. 

Attorneys for the Negroes accused county officials of taking no 

"substantial action toward formulation of policy and plans" to desegre- 

gate the classrooms, They charge further that school authorities 

"will indefinitely continue to do so" unless specifically ordered by 

the court "to make an immediate start toward desegregation and to 

complete this by a prescribed period of time." 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorneys for the Negro 

students and parents are Thurgood Marshall, Director—Counsel of Legal 

Defense in New York, and Spottswood W. Robinson, III and Oliver W. 

Hill, of Richmond, Va. 

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REV. KING GUEST SPEAKER 
AT MAY 17 ANNIVERSARY DINNER April 26, 1956 

NEW YORK.--The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the 

Montgomery protest movement, will be one of the principal speakers 

at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., May 17th 

dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria. It is the second affair given by the 

Legal Defense Fund in observance of the Supreme Court decision out- 

lawing segregation in public education. Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Under 

Secretary of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is 

chairman of the dinner committee. Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary 

of the N.A.A.C.P. and Thurgood Marshall, Director-Counsel of the 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, are scheduled to give 

progress reports. 

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