Dinner to Announce New LDF President William T. Coleman Jr. and Launch the 1971 Appeal of the Black Lawyer Training Program

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April 21, 1971

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  • Press Releases, Volume 6. Dinner to Announce New LDF President William T. Coleman Jr. and Launch the 1971 Appeal of the Black Lawyer Training Program, 1971. e8a08c76-ba92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/1d3fb012-811a-4f1c-a051-ed9d341be183/dinner-to-announce-new-ldf-president-william-t-coleman-jr-and-launch-the-1971-appeal-of-the-black-lawyer-training-program. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND PHOTOGRAPHER 
ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE DINNER 
AT THE PRINCETON CLUB. SECRETARY 
RICHARDSON, MR. COLEMAN, AND 
MR. HALABY WILL BE AMONG THE 
SPEAKERS. 
PLEASE CALL MRS. ANNA FRANK AT 
(212) 586-5025 

Secretary of Health Education and Welfare Elliot L. Richardson 

will be the guest speaker at the dinner at the 

Princeton Club, 15 West 43rd Street, New York, N.Y., on 

Wednesday, April 21. The dinner will introduce William T.Coleman Jr. 

newly elected President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to a 

group of about one hundred corporate leaders with headquarters 

in the Metropolitan area. Chairman and host at the dinner 

will be Najeeb E. Halaby, Chief Executive Officer of Pan American 

World Airways, on whose Board Mr. Coleman serves. 

Secretary Richardson has long been interested in the work of 

the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and was a member of the Boston 

Sponsoring Committee for the Legal Defense Fund during the 1960s. 

The dinner will launch the 1971 appeal on behalf of the Black 

Lawyer Training Program of the Fund, which seeks to add 1,500 

practicing black lawyers to the American bar within the next 

seven years. 

Mr. Coleman is a 1946 graduate of the Harvard Law School. 

He was elected to the presidency of the Legal Defense Fund 

in January 1971 and is at present a member of the distinguished 

Philadelphia law firm of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Levy and 

Coleman. He is also a leader in development of civil rights 

law. He is a former vice-president of the Legal Defense Fund, 

on whose Board he has served for more than a decade, and has 

participated in a numher of nationally important legal actions . 

He was one of the legal counsels to the Freedom Riders in the 

early 1960s. 

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