New Jersey Dinner to Support Legal Defense Fund

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Press Releases, Volume 6. New Jersey Dinner to Support Legal Defense Fund, 1971. c2cee8b2-ba92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/277551b8-52ff-446b-b9cb-b9a54da991a4/new-jersey-dinner-to-support-legal-defense-fund. Accessed October 29, 2025.

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November 16, 1971

NEW JERSEY D{NNER TO SUPPORT

LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

On Wednesday evening, November 17, more than 200 Jerseyites

will gather at the Far Hills Inn in Somerville in a dinner tribute

to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. The dinner,

an annual event, is traditionally sponsored by local Jersey citizens

to help raise money for the civil rights organization.

Speakers to address this vear's gathering are Newark's Mayor

Kenneth A. Gibson and Gustav Heningburg, President of the Greater

Newark Urban Coalition.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund -- known to many

as LDF -- was organized some 32 years ago by the National Association

for the Advancement of Colored People to carry on civil rights

litigation in the courts. For the last 17 years, however, LDF has

been completely independent of its founder.

LDF's most famous case was undoubtedly Brown v. the Board of

Education, which, in 1954, culminated in the landmark Supreme Court

decision renouncing the "separate but equal" doctrine used by

Southern states to perpetuate school segregation. As a result of

LDF's continued efforts, Southern schools today are the least segre-

gated in the nation.

Since the time of Brown, the LDF organization has grown drama-

tically, and comprises a network of more than 300 lawyers from coast

to coast. Its current docket includes some 700 individual civil

rights cases. To cover the costs of its litigation and educational

program for 1971, LDF will need a minimum of $4,000,000. Last year,

the organization's budget topped $3.6 million.

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Additional information enclosed

ACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. | 10 Columbus Circle | New York, N.Y. 10019 | (212) 586-8397

\liam T. Coleman, Jr. - President Jack Greenberg - Director-Counsel

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