Complaint Against Juror Discrimination for Arkansas Student Protest Case
Press Release
April 28, 1969
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Press Releases, Volume 6. Complaint Against Juror Discrimination for Arkansas Student Protest Case, 1969. 6a3ea370-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/edc254d5-d18c-4311-8a7b-98d52de2dfe5/complaint-against-juror-discrimination-for-arkansas-student-protest-case. Accessed December 05, 2025.
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PRESS RELEASE
April 28, 1969
FOREST CITY, ARKANSAS--A cooperating attorney for the NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. today filed a motion in federal
court to halt a local grand jury's investigation of, disturbance
at all Negro Lincoln High School.
Attorney John Walker asked the court to prevent grand jury
investigative activities until the complaint which he filed earlier
this week on behalf of Negro students involved in the disturbances
has been acted upon.
The Negro students are alleged to have disrupted classrooms
and damaged school property, following the dismissal of active
civil rights leader Rev. J. F. Cooley who taught at Lincoln High.
Four of the students were tried and convicted in juvenile
court and are being detained at the state industrial home.
In the earlier complaint, attorney Walker challenged the make
up of the jury, charging that the poor, blacks and women are routinely
discriminated against and are never selected as jurors.
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