Missouri v. Jenkins Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

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January 18, 1989

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Press Releases, Volume 2. Legal Defense Fund Seeks $25,000 From Benefit, 1965. 1e20b696-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/58b0ae0a-da60-42e4-bb4d-f60dbf866cad/legal-defense-fund-seeks-25-000-from-benefit. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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    10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
JUdson 6-8397 

NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE FOR RELEASE 
President 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers eee aoa: 

Director-Counsel ‘ 

Jack Greenberg 
Associate Counsel 

Constance Baker Motley 

LEGAL DEFENSE FUND SEEKS 
$25,000.00 FROM BENEFIT 

NEW YORK CITY--Eminent concert pianist Arthur Rubinstein will appear 

in a benefit concert Friday evening, January 22nd, 8:30 P. M. at 

Carnegie Hall on behalf of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 

Fund, Inc. 

This is Mr. Rubinstein's 4th year in benefit performance for 

the Legal Defense Fund. 

resently, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the 

legal arm of the civil rights movement, is handling 181 separate 

groups of cases now in courts dealing with civil liberties and 

civil rights. 

In addition, Legal Defense Fund attorneys are representing 

more than 12,000 individuals who have participated in various civil 

rights activities. 

It was established, as a separate corporation, by the NAACP in 

1939 and now works with a staff of 17 full-time and 120 cooperating 

attorneys. 

According to Mrs. John W. Davis and Mrs. Douglass Haskell, 

benefit co-chairmen of the 75-member committee, the predicted 

$25,000 will be used to help meet the legal expenses of the Legal 

Defense Fund estimated at $1,400,000 in 1964, 

During its existence, the volunteer Benefit Committee has 

raised nearly a quarter of a million dollars. 

Among the subscribers to the concert are Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman, 

Mrs, Harrison Tweed, Mrs. Ronald Tree, Mark Goodson, Judge and Mrs. 

Francis Rivers and Dr. and Mrs. Robert C, Weaver. 

Benefit tickets may be obtained by calling JUdson ¢-8397 (212). 

=30- 

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

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