Complaint Against Juror Discrimination for Arkansas Student Protest Case

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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 June 01, 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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New York, N. Y- 

Associated Press 

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New York, New York

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