LDF Files Suit Seeking Reinstatement of 300 Negro Issaquena County, Miss. Pupils Suspended for Wearing Freedom Buttons (Telegram)

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April 1, 1965

LDF Files Suit Seeking Reinstatement of 300 Negro Issaquena County, Miss. Pupils Suspended for Wearing Freedom Buttons (Telegram) preview

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  • Press Releases, Volume 2. LDF Files Suit Seeking Reinstatement of 300 Negro Issaquena County, Miss. Pupils Suspended for Wearing Freedom Buttons (Telegram), 1965. 1dbf72da-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/fdedd3d7-9317-4d73-8388-30a6a3c177ee/ldf-files-suit-seeking-reinstatement-of-300-negro-issaquena-county-miss-pupils-suspended-for-wearing-freedom-buttons-telegram. Accessed April 19, 2025.

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IAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & ED, FUND | 
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NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyers today filed suit in Federal 
District Court, Jackson, Mississippi seeking reinstatement of about 
300 Negro children suspended from Issaquena County schools in February 
for wearing freedom buttons. The suit, on behalf of 198 pupils, 
largest number ever to join in such an action, also asked court to 
order desegregation of all schools in Issaquena and Sharkey Counties, 
which share some facilities, 

For further information call Atty. Jack Young 
Jackson, Code 601~-FL 2-74384 

gas Jesse DeVore, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 
New York City, Code 2L.2=JU 6-3397 

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April 1, 1965

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