Memo on Program to Implement Civil Rights Act Title VII
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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 4 New York, N.Y. 10019 Rs JUdson 6-8397 | 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