Charles S. Zimmerman Elected to NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Board

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
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ARTHUR B. SPINGARN THURGOOD MARSHALL President Director and Counsel 

WALTER WHITE ROBERT L. CARTER 
Secretary Assistant Counsel 

ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS ARNOLD DE MILLE 
Treasurer Press Relotions 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 

CHARLES S. ZIMMERMAN ELECTED TO NAACP 
LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND BOARD 

NEW YORK - Charles S, Zimmerman, secretary-treasurer, of the 

Dressmakers Union, Local 22, ILGWU, and recent "Citation of Honor" 

award winner ef the Council of Spanish-American Agencies of New York, 

and five other religious, labor and lay leaders were elected to the 

Board of Directors ef the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 

Ince, it was announced this week by Thurgood Marshall, fBirector- 

Counsel of Legal Defense, 

Mr, Zimmerman and the other new members were unanimously 

elected at a recent meeting of the Board held at Legal Defense head- 

quarters, 107 West 3rd Street, New York. 

The other new members are Hon. Willard W. Allen, Sovereign 

Grand Commander, The United Supreme Council, 33°, Prince Hall Masons 

and President of Southern Life Insurance Coe; Rabbi Judah Cahn, Temple 

Israel, Lawrence, N.Y.3; George K, Hunton, national secretary of the 

Catholic Interracial Council; Mrs, Daisy E, Lampkin, Vice President, 

Pittsburgh Courier; Carl Murphy, president, Afro-American newspaperse 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., is the le- 

gal arm of the National Association for the Advancement of Colered 

People which has waged a long and uphill fight to establish the 

constitutional rights for Negroes to vote, to educate their children 

without regards to race, to travel without being discriminated and 

segregated against, and to work and live as other people. 

During the past 15 years Legal Defense has participated in 

hundreds of cases throughout the land, and its lawyers have appeared 

37 times before the United States Supreme Court in major cases in- 

volving the basic rights and principles denied Negro Americanse 

Among the most celebrated cases are the Smith v. Allwright 

which affirmed the right of Negro citizens to vote in primaries; the 

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Sweatt and McLaurin cases, which established the right of Negroes to 

attend state supported graduate and professional schools in states 

which had previously barred Negroes. 

The most recent and most comprehensive cases ever prepared 

by Legal Defense are the now famous school segregation cases which 

ask the United States Supreme Court to outlaw segregation in public 

and elementary schools, 

The election of the six new members brings the governing 

body of Legal Defense to a total of 3he 

Mr. Zimmerman, a native of Ukraine who came to America in 

1913 at the age of 15, has been active in the labor movement since he 

was in his teens, He joined the original United Garment Workers Union 

in 1915, and later the International Garment Workers Union in 1916, 

He has been with Local 22 since 1923. 

Mr, Zimmerman represents the national American Federation 

of Labor on the National Board of Community Chests and Councils of 

America, a member of the board of directors of the Community Chests, 

a member of the board of directors of the Panel for Americans, is 

provisional chairman of the Spanish Labor Committee, and is a member 

of the board of the National Conference of Christians and Jewse 

Last year he received the National Urban League's Labor 

Award and two weeks ago was named the 195), winner of the "Citation of 

Honor" Award of the Council of Spanish-American Agencies of New York 

for his outstanding contributions to the Puerto Rican people in New 

York City. 

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