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WILMINGTON—A flyer circulating around New Hanover County is creating some attention less than a week before the election.

The NAACP sent out a flyer calling four Republican school board members segregationists. The message stems from the recent middle school redistricting plan. Janice Cavenaugh, school board member, is not happy about the flyer. It calls her and three other board members "The New Segregationists."

The NAACP is taking aim at Cavenaugh and others for the recent middle school redistricting plan.

"Neighborhood schools that's slang for separation, that's all that is and we know that but then they are trying to shove it down our throats that this is a good thing, it is not," said Harold Beatty, president of the New Hanover County NAACP.

Cavenaugh is the only school board member pictured in the flyer and is compared to former Alabama Governor, George Wallace. Wallace was known as one of the most outspoken supporters of racial segregation in the 1960s. Cavenaugh said that's an unfair comparison.

"I don't think that students should be assigned to a school base on their race, I think they should be assigned according to the proximity of their home to that school," said Janice Cavenaugh.

The NAACP said Cavenaugh's comments show something else. They said she would like to see a law overturned that withholds state funds from counties that increase the segregation of schools.
 
"We specifically think, that the monies should be withheld until the school board realizes what they are doing," said Beatty. 

The NAACP started handing out the flyers in September. Last week, the school board signed a letter of assurance to the Department of Instruction stating its middle school redistricting plan does not segregate schools.