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...president of Washington. D.C.'s Howard University is a man with a grand dream and a curious problem. He is Attorney James Madison Nabrit Jr.. 59. dean of Howard's Law School and a major figure in the U.S. Negro's legal battle against segregation. His dream, as he takes over this month from retiring President Mordecai Johnson, 70, is to lift Howard from its present position as the nation's most important Negro University (6,507 students in ten schools and colleges) to top academic rank by anyone's standards. The trouble...
...N.A.A.C.P. lawyers turned scornfully on segregation in the nation's capital. "There is no place for a segregated school system in the capital of the free world," said Counsel James M. Nabrit Jr. Attorney George Hayes argued that segregation, imposed by the District's board of education, deprives Negroes "of their liberty and property without due process of law," a violation of the Fifth Amendment...