The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-09-15
News OF The
N. A. A. c. P.

New York, Sept. with eight
persons filing application for en-
trance to graduate schools in three
states for the fall term, the Asso-
citation announced this week that
it will push its drive at once to
open colleges in southern and bor-
der states to Negroes, in Missouri,
Tennessee and Maryland.
All the persons have sought the
aid of the N. A. A. c. P. in press
ing their cases.
According to the Association,
applications are listed in the fol-
lowing categories: law, 3; biology,
l.; sociology, 1; education, 1; che
mistry, 1; journalism, 1.
The names of the students and
the universities to which they seek
admission follow:
University of Tennessee, Knox
Vile: p. L. Smith, Joseph Michael,
law; Clinton Marsh, sociology; Ho-
mer L. Saunders, education; Ezra
Totten, chemistry, all residents of
Knoxville; and Walter S. E. Hardy
Charlotte, N. c., chemistry.
University of Missouri, Column
bia: Miss Lucille Bluford, Kansas
City, Mo-, journalism.
University of Maryland, Balti-
more: William Murphy, Baltimore,
law.
The N. A. A. c. P. announce
ment said that L. A. Ransom, pro-
fessor of law at Howard Univer-
sity and a member of the Asso-
cations national legal committee,
will handle the University of Ten
nessee cases. He will be assisted
by the law firm of Cowan and
LOBBY, of Nashville. Ransom is
scheduled to go to Nashville Sep
TENDER 10 to prepare the ground
for court action.
Gaines Case to be Revived
Charles H. Houston, pecial
counsel of the N. A. A. C. p, will
handle the case of Miss Bluford
at the university of Missouri. He
is expected to leave shortly for
Columbia, Mo.
1t was also stated that Houston
plans to seek further court action
in the Lloyd Gaines case.
Thurgood Marshall, special legal
counsel for the N. A. A. c. P. will
handle the case of William Muir
ply, the N. A. A. c. P. stated.
Murphy's case, if he is denied ad-
mission, will represent the second
time that the Association has gone
to court in an effort to force this
border state to admit Negroes to
its law school.
In 1885 the N. A. A. c. P. won
a victory at the hands of the State
Supreme Court of Maryland in the
Murray case. The court ruled at
that time that no adequate train
ing in law was available for Ne
groes in Maryland comparable to
that offered by the state univer-
sity, and ordered the school to adj
init Donald Murray. The Univer-
sity complied and Murray was
graduated from the school June
1888. This week he passed the
Maryland State bar, the N. A. A.
G. P. learned.
Arthur B. Spingarn, chairman of
the N. A. A. c. P.'s national le-
gal committee, in statement is
sued here today, said that Will
liam H. HASTE, pormer federal dis
trict judge for the Virgin Islands,
and Edward P. Lovett, attorney
connected with the United States
Housing Administration, would be
associated with the organizations
defense of these cases. "This is
our new answer" declared Mr..
Spingarn, Ito the question as to
how we shall follow up the Su-
preme Court decision in the Lloyd
Gaines case"
Urging the public to send funds
for carrying forward these and
other cases in the association
educational program, Mr.. Spin =
garn added:
I'm our fight to correct the evils
in our educational system both
as they affect the ability of Ne
gro citizens to gain an education
and to be paid equally for their
services when they become a part
of the teaching personnel in the
school system, it is necessary to
be realistic about the cost of this
fight.
Because we carried the Gaines
case to the u. S. Supreme Court
at the same time other cases were
being fought, we are now faced
with $4,000 deficit in this phase
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