Memo on Program to Implement Civil Rights Act Title VII

Press Release
June 30, 1965

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  • Press Releases, Volume 2. Memo on Program to Implement Civil Rights Act Title VII, 1965. cc61840a-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/1d02fc88-b92d-4feb-be66-05bce304bf74/memo-on-program-to-implement-civil-rights-act-title-vii. Accessed May 15, 2025.

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    A 10 Columbus Circle 
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| Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 

re Allan Knight Chalmers 
Director-Counsel 

Jack Greenberg June 30, 1965 

MEMORANDUM 

TO: WORKING PRESS 

FROM: Jesse DeVore, Director of Public Information 
NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. 

REF: Steps to implement Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act 
which goes into effect Friday, July 2, 1965, 

NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys will unveil a summer 

Negro community educational campaign now underway in 10 southern 

states, 

A team of Negro law students is working with all the major 

civil rights groups and local leadership in a drive to educate the 

southern Negro leadership to encourage local Negroes to apply for 

jobs with southern companies which have previously discriminated. 

This program will hopefully result in numerous complaints 

concerning specific instances of job discrimination which the 

U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will be able to act 

upon. 

However, if Commission conciliation fails, the Leg2l Defense 

Fund's corps of 120 southern Negro attorneys will use the findings 

of this summer project, as basis for an unprecedented southern 

legal campaign. 

oint ram wil tline AM 

morning, July Ist at a press conference at the Lenal Defense Fund 

office: Suite 2030, 10 Columbus Circle (Coliseum). 

Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 > B

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