Civil Rights Struggle Given $34,000 By Jack and Jill, Inc. 1

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September 23, 1966

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Press Releases, Volume 4. Civil Rights Struggle Given $34,000 By Jack and Jill, Inc. 1, 1966. a786092d-b792-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/0c78f5ad-20af-4b13-85d3-6cca3a344350/civil-rights-struggle-given-34-000-by-jack-and-jill-inc-1. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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    10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
JUdson 6-8397 

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Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 

FOR RELEASE 
President : : FRIDAY 

Hon. Fi E. Ri 
ee eae September 23, 1966 

Director-Counsel 
Jack Greenberg 

CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE 
GIVEN $34,000,G0 BY 
JACK AND JILL, INC. 

NEW YORK---Announcement of a $34,000.00 contribution to the NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) by Jack and Jill of 

America, Inc. was made here this week. 

Mrs. Margaret Simms of St. Louis, Mo., national president of the 

motherg& organization made the presentation at LDF national head- 

quarters to Rufus W. Smith, LDF director of development. 

An independent organization, the LDF serves as the legal arm of 

the civil rights movement. Its more than 200 staff and cooperating 

attorneys represent all major civil rights organizations. 

In presenting the check iiirs,.Simms said, "Jack and Jill feels 

that the Legal Defense Fund is the central and outstanding vehicle 

through which Negro Americans are attaining full equality day by day 

in our society." 

Jack and Jill voted the LDF as a national project for a two-year 

period at its 1964 convention in Séattle, Washington. 

Mrs. Jacqueline J, Robinson of Washington, D.C., a Jack and Jill 

national vice president, serves as director of this project, which 

still has four months to run. 

There are 113 local Jack and Jill chapters under supervision of 

the national organization which was chartered in 1946. 

Jack and Jill is a national group of mothers organized to sponsor 

civic, cultural, and educational activities for children from the age 

of 4 through high school years. 

Local chapters arrange their own activities according to resources 

available within the communities. 

ele 

Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Rly,

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