Memorandum Verifying That We are Separate and Distinct from NAACP Legal Staff That Resigned

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October 29, 1968

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Press Releases, Volume 5. Memorandum Verifying That We are Separate and Distinct from NAACP Legal Staff That Resigned, 1968. 72f66a1c-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/0ff11892-85a0-48e8-b6c9-0e2f611d438f/memorandum-verifying-that-we-are-separate-and-distinct-from-naacp-legal-staff-that-resigned. Accessed August 14, 2025.

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. | 

egal efense hand — 10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 

October 29, 1968 

MEMORANDUM 

TO: WORKING PRESS 

FROM: Jesse DeVore, Director of Public Information 

We have received a number of inquiries concerning the 

resignation of the NAACP's legal staff. The NAACP Legal Defense 

and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is not in any way involved in 

this controversy. All our 25 staff attorneys are at work. The 

confusion undoubtedly has arisen b 

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ecause of the similarity of 
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LDF was founded by the NAACP in 1939 and 

our names. While 

represents many members of the Association, members of other 

civil rights groups, and those who belong to no organization, 

the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is completely and totally separate. 

Under Thurgood Marshall, our Chief Counsel until 1961 when he 

went to the bench, and at present under Jack Greenberg, the Legal 

Defense Fund (LDF) has had its independent Board of Directors, its 

own sources 0 

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£ funds and its own staff. 

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Contributions are deductible for U. S. income tax purposes 

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