Atlanta Daily World

NAACP Attorneys To Appeal Hillsboro, O., School Case

NEW YORK -NAACP attorneys announced here today that they will appeal the ruling of a federal judge to hold over a school segregation case in Hillsboro, Ohio, until after the Supreme Court hands down its final decrees in the decision banning segregated schools. On Sept. 29 Federal District Judge John H. Druffel said in Cincinnati that he would withhold his decision in regard to the case brought by the NAACP. The association's case sought a preliminary injunction against the Hillsboro board of education to restrain the board from requiring Negro students to withdraw from two previously all-white elementary schools, pending the final determination of an action brought by five Negro mothers on behalf of their children. Judge Druffel ruled that the case be continued until two weeks after the Supreme Court hands down its final decrees. The Negro children were allowed to enroll in the white schools on registration day, Sept. 7, and were assigned to seats in regular classrooms on Sept. 8. They attended classes each day until Sept. 15, when the board of education advised their parents that school zones had been established and that the streets on which they lived were in the Negro elementary school zone. No white children under the board's zoning order was assigned to the Negro school. The Negro children have been kept from school by their parents since Sept. 15. Their parents refused to send them back to the Negro elementary school.