Youth - Lawyers Partnership Hailed for Rights Triumphs

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Dr. Allan Knight Chaimers 
Director-Counsel 

Jack Greenberg 
Associate Counsel 

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June 36,° 1964 

PARTNERSHIP 
HTS TRIUMPHS 

Defense Fund Announces Summer Attack on Lawlessness 

WASHINGTON, D.C.--The unusual partnership of young people and 

lawyers "will push the country over the top on civil rights faster 

than anyone ever would guess it could be done," NAACP Legal 

Defense Fund Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg told the Youth Ban- 

quet of the national NAACP Convention here this week. 

At the same time, Mr. Greenberg revealed Legal Defense Fund 

plans to combat the growing wave of lawlessness on the part of 

Southern officials and citizens! groups. 

For the summer, the Defense Fund will have the services of WwW. 

Robert Ming and his Chicago law firm and of Charles P. Morgan Jr. 

of Washington. "Both are superb professionals in this struggle," 

Mr. Greenberg said, 

Attorney Ming is "one of the foremost civil rights lawyers and 

scholars in the country," Mr, Greenberg noted. Mr. Morgan was "the 

only white lawyer in Birmingham, Ala. with courage to speak up 

against the outrages of that city, and as a reward was driven from 

mee” 

Mr. Greenberg further announced an increase in the Defense Fund 

staff to 17 full-time lawyers. He added that top law professors 

are conducting a series of seminars under Fund auspices "to sharpen 

the training of our 120 cooperating lawyers throughout the South; 

without whom there would be no such thing as civil rights in their 

communities. 

"Our goal is that when there is a job to be done, there should 

be a lawyer available to do it," Mr, Greenberg stated, yeh 

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Hailed for Rights Triumphs 

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In his talk to the assembled young paople, Mr. Greenberg 

) pace-setting role of the. law that led to the historic 

recedent*of Brown v, Board of Education in 1954, 

Oth who, in seeing through the "hypocrisy of our community 

aders," initiated the sit-ins and peaceful demonstrations in’ 

* the '60's. * 

"It is no accident that the sit-ins began in Greensboro, NZCS# 

2 nd rapidly spread through Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte and elses 

Minere in that state becausé those are the communities where” sake 

ism was practiced as a fine art," he continued, 

* Mr. Greenberg said that attorneys are now at work to secure 

enforcement of the precedents Legal Defense Fund suits have 

» «created over the years. He stressed the efforts to integeaae 

“schools and hospitals, and to defend demonstrators. ® 

+ Citing the recent U.S, Supreme Court reversal of 77 sit-in 

“convictions, Mr. Greenberg emphasized that the law has repeatedly 

sanctioned peaceful demonstrating, and that "violence almost 

always has come from white supremacists. 

, "The hallmark of a demonstration is what NAACP youth and the. 

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ean of other organizations were doing when they quietly sat 4 

at the lunch counters all over the South, or paraded on the state ft 

house grounds and made solemn witness against the greatest moral 

crime that exists in this country. 
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"vie will triumph if we keep it that way, as I am sure we will," 

Mr. Br ccnnerg told the banquet meeting. 

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