1972 Press Photo Stanley Pottinger of HEW at Washington news conference

J. Stanley Pottinger, civil rights director at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, discusses school desegregation at a Washington news conference today. He reported that 11 southern states for the first time have fewer black pupils in totally segregated schools than does in the North.

Photo is dated 1972.

Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches.