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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
107 WEST 43 STREET + NEW YORK 36, N. Y. © JUdson 6-8397 

ARTHUR B. SPINGARN oe THURGOOD MARSHALL 
President Director and Counsel 

ROY WILKINS ROBERT L. CARTER 
Secretary Assistant Counsel 

ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS, ARNOLD de MILLE 
Treasurer Press Relations 

FOR RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, October 17 

October 15, 1956 

NEW YORK, Oct. 15.--Thurgood Marshall today announced the addi- 

tion of two lawyers to the hard-pressed staff of the NAACP Legal 

Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. They are Miss Irma R. Robbins 

and Waite H, Madison, Jr. 

The addition was made necessary by the increasing number of 

school cases in the South and the continued challenges of the pro- 

segregationists who insist on defying federal laws outlawing 

segregation, Mr. Marshall said. 

"Since the United States Supreme Court rendered its decision two 

and a half years ago, we have taken legal action in more than sixty 

school cases alone," Mr. Marshall explained. This does not include 

cases involving inter and intra-state travel, housing and other liti- 

gation involving other rights of Negroes, he added. 

Mr. Marshall who is director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense 

and Educational Fund, Inc., said he expects the number of requests 

for legal assistance from Negro students and parents to increase 

probably 100% in the coming year. "Our people look to us for help 

and we must have the staff to help them," he added. 

Miss Irma R, Robbins, 2h, is a native of Baltimore, Md.; attended 

elementary, junior and senior high schools in New York City. She is 

a graduate of Hunter Gollege; 1953, ana received her LL.B. from Yale 

Law School this year. 

Atty. Madison, 32, is a native of Missouri, He attended elemen- 

tary and high school in Marshall and Sedalia, Mo. receiving his A.B. 

degree from West Virginia State College in 198 and his LL.B. at 

Howard University Law School in 1955. 

The two additions to the staff will be added strain on the NAACP 

Legal Defense Fund's already harrassed budget, Mr. Marshall pointed 

out. He said the Fund still needs more than 150,000 to carry it 

through the rest of the year. 
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