Memo on Program to Implement Civil Rights Act Title VII
Press Release
June 30, 1965
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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