Legal Defense Fund Gains Greater Boston Committee

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Press Releases, Volume 1. Legal Defense Fund Gains Greater Boston Committee, 1964. 077cc5df-b492-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/2949a294-4c5e-4c81-841d-c27d8d63098e/legal-defense-fund-gains-greater-boston-committee. Accessed October 09, 2025.

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New York, N.Y. 10019 ~@ 
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Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 
President 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers 

Director-Counsel Boston Office 
Jack Greenberg 

FOR drsociate Comat 419 Boylston Street, Rm, 707 
IMMEDIATE Constance Baker Motley 
RELEASE CO 2-3850-51 

LEGAL DEFENSE FUND GAINS 
GREATER BOSTON COMMITTEE 

BOSTON, MASS.--The Greater Boston Committee of the NAACP Legal Defense 
and Educational Fund will be officially launched here tonight (April 
20th) at a capacity dinner-meeting at the Harvard Club. 

Guest speakers will be Earl Johnson, chief counsel for the state 
of Florida for the Legal Defense Fund and Charles Morgan, formerly of 
Birmingham, Ala. 

Mr. Morgan now serves as counsel for the American Association of 
University Professors in Washington. He gained fame when he dared to 
speak out against the inertia of his fellow white citizens of Birming- 
ham, 

Mr. Johnson has handled numerous Legal Defense Fund cases in his 
native Florida, including cases growing out of the recent riots in 
that city. 

Mark Howe of Harvard law school will act as master of ceremonies, 

James Lawrence, Jr., chairman of the organizing group explained 
earlier that the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, a separate organization 
from the NAACP, serves as the legal arm of the entire civil rights 
ovement, 

Its attorneys, Mr. Lawrence said, represent Martin Luther King 
and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Congress of 
Racial Equality, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the 
NAACP. 

Last year the Legal Defense Fund: 

*Defended 10,487 citizens arrested during peaceful demonstrations. 
Legal Defense Fund lawyers carried this load in addition to their 
regular responsibilities. 

*Represented Negro Americans in 30 cases presented to the U.S. 
Supreme Court. This made the Legal Defense Fund second only to 
the U.S. Justice Department in cases placed before the high court 
for review. 

*Maintained a staff of 12 lawyers, based in its New York City 
national headquarters, who were augmented by 102 cooperating attor- 
neys across the nation. 

*Fought 168 separate groups of legal actions in 15 states on behalf 
of thousands of Negroes seeking basic constitutional rights, 

_.The Boston group will serve a two-fold purpose: to more closely 
familiarize area citizens with the role of law in the current civil 
rights struggle, and to raise funds. 

Among distinguished Bostonians assisting Mr. Lawrence are Thomas 
B, Adams, Canon James P, Breeden, Attorney General Edward L, Brooke, 
Bishop John M, Burgess and Francis H. Burr. 

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



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Greater Boston Committee 

Also Oscar Burrows, Henry B. Cabot, Bronson W. Chanler, Philip 
Eiseman, Mr. Howe, Ralph Lowell, Thomas H. Mahoney, and Sidney R. 
Rabb, 

In addition, Elliot L. Richardson, Carl Sapers, R. Minturn 
Sedgwick and Herbert E. Tucker, Jr. 

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