LDF Files Emporia, Va. School Brief

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LDF FILES EMPORIA, VA. SCHOOL BRIEF

N.Y., N.Y., Nov. 24 --- Attorneys for the NAACP Legal Defense

and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today sent to the Supreme Court a

brief asking the Court to halt the proposed withdrawan of Emporia,

Virginia from the Greenville County school system, because it would

drastically alter the present racial balance within the county schools,

and impede effective school desegregation there.

The case, Wright v. the Council of the City of Emporia, and a

companion case, Cotton v. Scotland Neck City Board of Education (its

brief to be filed within 10 days), are of special concern to LDF

attorneys who fear that without a strong Supreme Court ruling on their

side, school districts across the South will opt to divide on non-

racial pretexts to thwart past desegregation efforts. Emporia alleges

that it wants to provide dea children with schooling “superior” to

the county's. However, the net effect of pulling city children out

of the county system would leave the county 70% black and the city

(whose schools formerly enrolled all the white children in the county)

50% white. At present the combined system has a black enrollment of

65.9%.

Although the district court refused to allow the division

because of the substantial racial shift it would create and because

of other adverse effects it would have upon the ability of the county

to provide a quality education for its children, the Court of Appeals

overturned this ruling on the thesis that, under state law, Emporia

was qualified to operate its own district and could do so so long as

its "primary motive" was not to thwart school desegregation efforts.

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Revised background on Emporia and Scotland Neck cases enclosed.

For further information contact: Attorney Norman Chachkin or

Sandy O'Gorman (Public Info.)

212-586-8397

NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. | 10 Columbus Circle | New York, N.Y. 10019 | (212) 586-839

William T. Coleman, Jr. - President Jack Greenberg - Director-Counse’

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