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Mamorandum for Assistant Attorney General Warren Olney IIT get the individuals not to prosecute the suit. The civil action concerns denial by Dallas Inde ent School District in denying admittance to Hegro to schools in Dallas. Mr. Marshall advised that the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas had instituted a series of interviews with the plaintiffs which ended in a court of inguiry before Justice of the Peace W. E. Richburg, Dallas, Texas, on September 29, 1956, at a time when ali of the NAACP attorneys vere at Tyler, Texas, conferring with Attorney General John Ben Shepperd regarding a state suit to outlaw the NAACP in Texas, Mr. Marshall stated that the plaintiffs, «who are parents or guardians of the Negro children involved in the sait, had been taken before the court of inquiry by unidentified officers without a display of state process of any type and in some instances they had been taken under threats of incarceration and econozic pressure. Mr, Harshall advised that while the court of inquiry was purported to be held in connection with the State Attorney General's suit to outlaw the NAACP, the actual purpose of the hearing was to try to force the laintiffs to state that they did not hire the attorneys who signed the petitions in the Federal suit. Mr. Marshall made available copies of unsigned statements prepared by eight ‘individuals, which statements Mr. Marshall advised included details of the alleged intimidation. ‘The examination of tie statements by Agents of our Dallas Office reflects that three individuals allegedly vere interviewed by representatives of the State Attorney Ceneral and asked if they had, of their own volition, taken their children to the vhite schools for enrollment, or whether the NAACP had suggested this action. They vere further asked if they had signed the petition for action in Federal Court of their own volition or whether the MAACP had asked them to sign such petitions, One of the andividuais had been interviewed by state anthorities on September 20, 1956, and the other tvo on September 21, 1956. Two individuals in their statements did not indicate that they had been interviewed by representatives of the State Attorney General. The other three statements were fron 5 7C individuals vho stated that they appeared before Justice of the Peace Richburg in Dalles pursuant to request. his statement related that he had received a a