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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi
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In East Orange, N.J., NAACP attorneys protested segregation in a state veterans' housing project on November 8, claiming it violates the Constitution and state law by separating Negro and white veterans based on race rather than need. They threatened legal action, with council promising response.
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East Orange N. J., Nov. 11—Attorneys for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People this week assailed discrimination in a state veterans' housing project here as violating the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and the New Jersey housing law.
They informed the East Orange City Council that they would take legal action against the existing policy unless segregation is voluntarily ended.
Appearing before the City Council meeting on November 8 Mrs. Marian Wynn Perry, NAACP assistant special counsel, and Herbert Tate, attorney for the East Orange branch of the NAACP, charged that the plan of the City Council's Permanent Housing Committee to segregate Negro veterans in one small 14-unit project while admitting only white veterans to other projects containing over one hundred units, is not in compliance with the State of New Jersey's instructions that the housing projects, built under the Veterans' Housing Act, admit tenants only on the basis of need.
Also testifying at the hearing were Samuel Williams, president of the East Orange NAACP branch, and several veterans and their wives who spoke of their desperate need for housing.
No statement was made by Housing Committee Chairman William M. McConnell. Speedy action on the NAACP protest against the discrimination was promised by City Council Chairman James L. MacWithey, who had denied knowledge of the segregation.
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East Orange, N.J.
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November 8
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NAACP attorneys assailed segregation in East Orange veterans' housing project as violating the Fourteenth Amendment and New Jersey law, threatening legal action unless ended. They charged the policy segregates Negro veterans into a small project while whites get larger ones, against state instructions for need-based admission. Testimonies from NAACP president and veterans highlighted housing needs. Council promised action.