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t Form . Por2es (E1g258: » . xe FEDEI:AL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION qo\ 2 Qepesting OFftre office of Origtn Date Investigative Perfed = ¢ yet. nf _, “TT - Dellas DALLAS 10/1/56 9/30;10/1/56 UNKNOWN SUBJECTS, TEXAS. RANCERS; THURGOOD’MARSHALL - 88 SATs ee TESST CIVIL RIGHTS GOOD MARSHALL, Special Counsel, NAACP, NYC., alleged certain Pf plaintiffs in Dallas Public School integration suit, to be heard . 10/1/56, NDT, Dellas, Texas "intimidated" by two State Assistant f Attorneys General and unidentified assisting local officers, in WY effort to get them not to prosecute Federal suit and to influence testimony in said suit. MARSHALL stated Attorney General's oe instituted serles of interviews with plaintiffs, all parents or v4 guardians of Negro children involved, culminating in Court of AS if Inquiry before Justice of Peace, Dallas, 9/29/56; stated purported A purpose of Court of Inquiry was in connection with Attorney Y General's suit to outlaw NAACP in Texas, actual purpose to force : plaintiffs to state they did not hire attornies who signed petition J in Federal suit, MARSHALL stated unidentified officers too | 4 plaintiffs, without display of state process of any tgpe and _g in some instances, under threats of incarceration and economic Y, pressure before Court of Inquiry. MARSHALL furnished copies of “/unsigned statements which he said contained full details of "intimidations," Examinations of statements discloses no indi- cation three of persons have been interviewed by Attorney General's staff at any time; three interviewed prior to Court of Inquiry at ( thair places of employment; three appeared before Court of Inquiry. 1CC: AAG CRI¥INAL DIvIstoy _ it we - MM FO Special Agent Approved in Charge Bo met trite in ayece beler Coptes nade: — 2. Bureau 1 - USA, For Worth —z 2 - Dallas ( iT INDEXED - 7? wy t C: AAG CRIMINAL DI 58 0 56 eae me ¢ FORM us oe SP new MW — 1-year EE eee eed Property of FRI = his repert 16 leaned te yeu by the FRI, and meither it ber ite centents are te be distributed evtside the ageney te vhich leaned. . 1 U. 8. GOVERNMENT PROITHSS CrPECE ies O— $440790 \\ \ ee ee Vs \