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 June 13, 2025.
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10 Columbus Circle New York, N.Y. 10019 JUdson 6-8397 CP 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,