Bailey v. Patterson Mimeographed Record Vol. I
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July 17, 1961

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Press Releases, Loose Pages. Sen. Lehman to Get NAACP Legal Defense Fund Philip Murray Award, 1956. e0bd3345-bc92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/e0b8b332-6224-4507-83b8-3bf68282af2a/sen-lehman-to-get-naacp-legal-defense-fund-philip-murray-award. Accessed May 04, 2025.
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PRESS RELEASE® e NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 107 WEST 43 STREET © NEW YORK 36, N. Y. © JUdson 6-8397 ARTHUR B. SPINGARN op THURGOOD MARSHALL President Director and Counsel ROY WILKINS ROBERT L. CARTER Secretary Assistant Counsel ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS, ARNOLD de MILLE Treesurer Press Relations FOR RELEASE: Wednesday, May 16, A.M. and P.M, papers SEN. LEHMAN TO GET NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND PHILIP MURRAY AWARD May 16, 1956 NEW YORK., May 16.--Senator Herbert H, Lehman of New York has been chosen the first- recipient of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Philip Murray Award, it was announced today by Thurgood Marshall, Director-Counsel of the organization. The award was established last year in honor of the late president of the Congress of Industrial Orgmizations and made possible by a gift from the Philip Murray Foundation. It pays trib- ute to "an American who has contributed in great measures to the betterment of race relations in our country." The award consists of a scroll and {1,000 to be given to a charitable organization selected by the recipient. Presentation of the award to Senator Lehman will be made tomor- row night at the Waldorf Astoria at the second dinner given by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., in observance of the May 17, 1954, Supreme Court decision declaring racial segregation in public education uncons titutional. Principal speaker at the affair will be the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the Montgomery, Ala. protest movement. Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the National Associatbn for the Advancement of Colored People, and Mr. Marshall will give accounts of progress made in the area of desegregation since the Supreme Court made its historic ruling. Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Under Secretary of the United Nations, is chairman of the dinner. =0=