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

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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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INTERNATIONAL SERVICE \ Check the class of servicedesired; e! otherwise the message will be sentasa fi sence at the full rate: ‘W. P. MARSHALL. presioent SHORE F, THE ACCOUNT OF i! TIME FIL! IAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & ED, FUND | Columbus Circle, N.Y.C. Suite 2030 ‘Send the following mesiage, subject (o the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed co (See attached list) 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 MIGHT LETTER CASH NO. [[No-wos.-cu. oF sve.] Poor cou. | April 1, 1965