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Letter from Daisy Bates to attorney Wiley A. Branton discussing the need to coordinate desegreation through the NAACP. 1207 West 28th Street Little Rock, Arkansas August 28, 1962 Mr. Wiley A. Branton, Esq. 5 Forsythe Street, N.W. Atlanta 3, Georgia Dear Mr. Branton: Shortly afte I arrived home, June 13, 1962, I was contacted by some of the parents who were interested in enrolling their children in the elementary schools here this fall. I had read the statement in the press stating that the Little Rock School Board had said that it did not plan to integrate the elementary schools at this time. I also had read a subsequent release in the press quoting you, in effect, that you would take court action. Based on the statement quoting you, I assured the parents that action would be taken immediately. During this time, I was also contacted by some of the students who had been denied transferes for the Horace Mann high school to the in- tegrated high schools. They want to know if relief could be sought in their case. I contacted Attorney Harold B. Anderson who had represented many of the students who had been denied transfers before the school board. I asked for the names and addresses of the students and their parents in order to assure them that relief would be sought fo them. I was surprised when Mr. Anderson referred me to Mro. Ozell Sutton, co-director for the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, for the in-...

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