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Virginia Harper NAACP Correspondence, 1971-1996

1972-01-10 June Shagaloff Alexander to NAACP State Conference and Branch Presidents

NAACP Special Contribution Fund
1790 BROADWAY / NEW YORK, N.Y. 10019 / 245-2100

BOARD OF TRUSTEES:
Kivie Kaplan
  Chairman
Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood
  Vice-Chairman
Alfred Baker Lewis
  Treasurer
William Oliver
  Assistant Treasurer
Roy Wilkins
  Secretary
John A. Morsell
  Assistant Secretary
Nathaniel R. Jones
  General Counsel

MEMBERS
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche
Mrs. Daisy Bates
Theodore M. Berry
Dr. Leonard L. Burns
Dr. W. Montague Cobb
John R. Coleman
Hubert T. Delany
Earl B. Dickerson
Dr. George D. Flemmings
Dr. Buell Gallagher
Samuel Jackson
Judge Joseph G. Kennedy
Randall C. Morgan, Sr.
Jackie Robinson
Ramon Scruggs
David F. Squire
Hobart Taylor, Jr.
C. Darrow Tully
Jesse Turner

THE ONLY TAX EXEMPT VEHICLE FOR SUPPORT OF NAACP COMMUNITY PROGRAMS IN
THE COURTS, SCHOOLS, VOTER EDUCATION, HOUSING AND TRAINING SERVICES AND YOUTH ACTIVITIES. . . . . . . .

January, 1972
MEMORANDUM
TO: NAACP State Conference and Branch Presidents
FROM: June Shagaloff Alexander, Education Director
On January 10, 1972, the Federal District Court in Richmond, Virginia, in a far-reaching decision, ruled that the predominantly black public school system of Richmond (70 percent black) must merge across political boundaries with two predominantly white adjoining suburban school systems (91 percent white). The enrollment of the merged school systems would be about one-third black. Under the court order, no school in the city or suburbs would be more than 40 percent black.
The court order, if upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, would equalize school expenditures in a given metropolitan area, curtail the white flight to the suburbs, and significantly reverse the increasing isolation of black pupils in public schools and white pupils in private schools in the cities as well as white pupils in the suburbs.
Enclosed are two reprints of articles on the Richmond decision published by the New York Times, January 13 and 16. Please let me know if you would like additional copies for distribution.
JSA/ma
Encl.

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NAACP Special Contribution Fund 1790 BROADWAY / NEW YORK, N.Y. 10019 / 245-2100 BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Kivie Kaplan Chairman Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood Vice-Chairman Alfred Baker Lewis Treasurer William Oliver Assistant Treasurer Roy Wilkins Secretary John A. Morsell Assistant Secretary Nathaniel R. Jones General Counsel MEMBERS Dr. Ralph J. Bunche Mrs. Daisy Bates Theodore M. Berry Dr. Leonard L. Burns Dr. W. Montague Cobb John R. Coleman Hubert T. Delany Earl B. Dickerson Dr. George D. Flemmings Dr. Buell Gallagher Samuel Jackson Judge Joseph G. Kennedy Randall C. Morgan, Sr. Jackie Robinson Ramon Scruggs David F. Squire Hobart Taylor, Jr. C. Darrow Tully Jesse Turner THE ONLY TAX EXEMPT VEHICLE FOR SUPPORT OF NAACP COMMUNITY PROGRAMS IN THE COURTS, SCHOOLS, VOTER EDUCATION, HOUSING AND TRAINING SERVICES AND YOUTH ACTIVITIES. . . . . . . . January, 1972 MEMORANDUM TO: NAACP State Conference and Branch Presidents FROM: June Shagaloff Alexander, Education Director On January 10, 1972, the Federal District Court in Richmond, Virginia, in a far-reaching decision, ruled that the predominantly black public school system of Richmond (70 percent black) must merge across political boundaries with two predominantly white adjoining suburban school systems (91 percent white). The enrollment of the merged school systems would be about one-third black. Under the court order, no school in the city or suburbs would be more than 40 percent black. The court order, if upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, would equalize school expenditures in a given metropolitan area, curtail the white flight to the suburbs, and significantly reverse the increasing isolation of black pupils in public schools and white pupils in private schools in the cities as well as white pupils in the suburbs. Enclosed are two reprints of articles on the Richmond decision published by the New York Times, January 13 and 16. Please let me know if you would like additional copies for distribution. JSA/ma Encl.