"Lily White" Academy Can't Buy Municipal Property, Court Rules
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March 22, 1971

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Press Releases, Volume 7. Greenberg Statement on Supreme Court Decisions on Ohio School Desegregation, 1979. 0c1262ad-bb92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/b43e2c9d-5d03-4bb1-a5b8-3226469d4783/greenberg-statement-on-supreme-court-decisions-on-ohio-school-desegregation. Accessed August 19, 2025.
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STATEMENT BY JACK GREENBERG, DIRECTOR-COUNSEL, NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND, ON TODAY'S SUPREME COURT DECISIONS ON SCHOOL DESEGREGATION For immediate release For further information: Monday, July 2, 1979 Jack Greenberg Jim Nabrit Bill Lee NAACP Legal Defense Fund (212) 586-8397 New York, N.Y., July 2 -- The following statement was issued today by Jack Greenberg, Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, in reaction to today's Supreme Court decisions on school desegregation: Today's Supreme Court decision in the Dayton and Columbus school desegregation cases will have a major and positive effect on the fifty active school desegregation cases currently on our docket. LDF lawyers are preparing for a hearing next week in Austin concerned with some of these same issues and are preparing a brief in the Dallas school case that will be positively affected by the decisions. We shall make motions in other pending cases demanding complete and immediate relief. The decision insures that integration in public education will continue and advance as a national program. END OF STATEMENT NOTE TO EDITORS: The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is not part of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 13