Plaintiffs' First Request for Admissions to Defendant-Intervenors with Certificate of Service
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Press Releases, Volume 3. Scholarship Program Adds Meaning to Legal Defense Fund Victories Over Segregated Higher Education, 1965. 9147356b-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/77990957-91eb-46cd-a94b-8d2bba431865/scholarship-program-adds-meaning-to-legal-defense-fund-victories-over-segregated-higher-education. Accessed May 16, 2025.
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10 Columbus Cirele New York, N.Y. 10019 JUdson 6-8397 Legal Defense and Educational Fund PRESS RELEASE President FOR RELEASE Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers Tuesday, Dirsctor-Counsel November 9, 1965 Jack Greenberg SCHOLARSHI PROGRAM NEW YORK~---Sixty-four students are presently attending desegregated colleges and universities under a scholarship program administered by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, according to a report made public here today. Purpose of the scholarships is to implement Legal Defense Fund desegregation victories by establishing a flow of Negro students into publicly supported and formerly segregated colleges. The scholarship fund was established two years ago with a m the estate of the late New York Governor and Senator Lehman. Two enrolled in predominantly Negro Deen South colleges Lehman scholarships. Dr. John W. Davis, former president of West Virginia College, administers the scholarship program for the Legal Defense Fund, In his report to Jack Greenbera, Legal Defense Fund director- counsel, Dr. Davis said 46 scholarships were awarded this year, including one for graduate work the University of Florida last summer, More than 400 students had applled for scholarships for the 1964-65 school year, Additionally, 19 students who received scholarships last year were authorized grants to continue th studies this year. Dr. Davis said 111 applications were received last year. Another 14 students who received scholarships last year were either graduated or did not return to school this year for other reasons, Dr. Davis said. To date, $56,000 in scholarships has been paid, the report saic Eleven scholarship students are presently attending the University of Mississippi; ten at the University of South Carolina; eight at the University of North Carolina and six at the University of Alabama. Also, five are attending Clemson College, S. C.; three each at Georgia Institute of Peckno logy and East Carolina College, eenville, N. C., and two each at Louisiana State University and Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss. One Lehman scholarship recipients is at each of the following institutions: University of Virginia; University of Cincinnati; University of Georgia; Morehouse College; Northeast Louisiana State; Richmond Medical College; University of South Mississippi and North Carolina College. Also, Emory University; Bennett Colleae; Armstrong College, Savannah, Ga,; St. Vincent Nursing School, Brimingham, Ala.; Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S. C., and Southern State Colles2, Magnolia, Arkansas, =50= Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Rlverside 9-8487 a t