( CNN ) -- The nation 's oldest and largest civil rights organization wants to sound the alarm on school resegregation , and is hoping a national educational summit will bring attention to what its members consider a huge problem , according to a news release from the NAACP . The organization will meet for three days later this week in North Carolina , where the Department of Justice is planning to investigate policies relating to resegregation , the statement says . Leaders from the group will be joined by grass-roots organizers from across the country from Thursday through Saturday for the first national NAACP summit on education in three years , the statement says . The purpose of the meeting is to discuss comprehensive education reform with an urgent focus on resegregation in the nation 's school districts , the NAACP said . According to the organization , over two-fifths of black students attend `` extremely segregated schools , '' up from less than one-third in 1988 , which the NAACP considers the height of desegregation . The summit was named in honor of Daisy Bates , former president of the Arkansas State Conference of the NAACP and advisor to the Little Rock Nine , the statement said . Those nine students desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957 . NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous is to deliver the keynote address on the first day of the summit , which will be held in Raleigh , North Carolina .
The three-day Daisy Bates educational summit will examine resegregation in nation 's schools . Summit named in honor of former Arkansas State Conference of the NAACP . NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous to deliver keynote address .