Index to Volume 5
Press Release
June 27, 1967 - September 29, 1969
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1. TELEGRAM - LDF Demands an investigation of racial discrimination in
Camden, New Jersey hospitals - 6/27/67
2. TELEGRAM - Preliminary hearing to halt execution of 61 persons sentenced
to die for capital punishment crimes in San Francisco (Leroy
Clark) - 6/28/67
3. PRESS RELEASE - Halt for 61 San Quentin executions sought by NAACP Legal
Defense Fund (Leroy Clark) - 7/1/67 E
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5. TELEGRAM - Request appointment to outline new legal trends in hopes of if
broad editorial treatment of LDF's new legal outlook in i
various magazines - 7/11/67 f
6. TELEGRAM - Five-point program by Jean Fairfax to U. S- Senate Sub-Com- t
mittee on Education, Labor and Public Welfare - 8/14/67
7. PRESS RELEASE - Press Conference on Exclusion of Negro athletes from
Television commercials and a resulting complaint to the Fed-
eral Communications Commission - 8/23/67 ‘
8. Same as above to radio and television v
9.- 14. Remarks of Gus Heningburg to Overseas Press Club - 8/23/67 t
15. Letter from Jack Greenberg to Federal Communications Commission and p
"Report on the Frequency of Appearance of Negroes on Televised™
Commercials" - 8/18/67
16..PRESS RELEASE - Survey finds Negro athletes under utilized in TV ads
Le Legal Defense Fund files complaint with FCC - 8/26/67
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19. PRESS RELEASE - to St. Louis, Mo. Press - Civil Rights Attorney defends
Indigent white girl (Leroy Clark) - 8/23/67
20. PRESS RELEASE - LDF asks High Court to Restrain "Stop and Frisk" - Jack
21. Greenberg, James Nabrit, Mel Zarr, Michael Meltsner, Anthony
Amsterdam, William McDaniels, Jr. - 8/29/67
22. MEMO - to NNBPC from Gus Heningburg - re riots, NORI, legal process
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24. TELEGRAM - Discrimination of reading materials to prisoner - Earl Johnson |
8/30/67
25. NEWSPAPER ARTICLE - New York Times - Negro Athletes charge TV Slight
8/24/67
26. PRESS RELEASE - LDF Attorneys prevent Gov. Wallace (Alabama) from imple-
menting an act of the legislature designed to thwart school
desegregation (requiring students to designate the race of
their teacher) - Mel zarr - 9/5/67
27. TELEGRAM - LDF attorneys argue motion for preliminary injunction against
Gov. Wallace and state officials in District Court on above j
subject. - 9/15/67
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28. PRESS RELEASE - Constitutional Rights of Relief recipients denied (Leroy
29s Clark) - 9/16/68
30. PRESS RELEASE - LDF asks Supreme Court to strike down Nashville, Tenn. Exe
Police policy - Jack Greenberg, Michael Meltsner, Tony Amster= ) ~
dam, Avon Williams, Z. Alexander, John Howland - 9/27/67
31. PRESS RELEASE - Maryland law on unwed mothers challenged as unconstitu+
tional - Leroy Clark, J. Franklin Bourne - 9/28/67
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Remarks of Leroy Clark at National Conference of Negro Elected Officials,
Univ. of Chicago, 9/30/67
Target Areas for Legislative Reform - I. Welfare a. Eligibility b. Res-
idence Requirements c. Rehabilitation 2. Public Housing
3. Slum Housing 4. Indigent Customer a. Garnishment b. service a,
of process 5. Migrant workers a. the vote b. union organiza= - "
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Suggested areas for legislative reform of the criminal process - 1. Bail
2. Status crimes 3. Juvenile delinquincy 4. Right to Counsel
5. Compentency to stand trial
PRESS RELEASE - LDF asks Court of Appeals to act in behalf of youth
interrogated by Georgia police - Jack Greenberg, James
Finney, Michael Meltsner, John Ruffin - 10/10/67
Statement by Jack Greenberg - on Supreme Court school desegregation de-
cision - 10/9/67
Statement by Jack Greenberg - on racial discrimination in juries - 10/9/67
TELEGRAM - Capital punishment for rape (Tony Amsterdam) - 10/11/67
PRESS RELEASE - Six Southern states lose school integration fight (See
39) James Nabrit - 10/13/67
PRESS RELEASE - Preston Cobb to get new Georgia trial (See 40) - 10/13/67
PRESS RELEASE - Supreme court asked to halt southern school integration
system (See-39 - 42) Jack Greenberg, James Nabrit, Michael
Henry, Avon Williams, Z. Alexander Looby, J. Emmett Ballard
- 10/19/67
PRESS RELEASE - Georgia judge orders school construction stopped as mea-
sure against dual system - Steve Ralston - 10/26/67
TELEGRAM - MFY and LDF attorneys challange N. Y. State Court of Appeals
on legal rights of the indigent - Mike Meltsner, Martin
3 Spiegel - 10/30/67
PRESS RELEASE - LDF claims bias by electrical workers - Jack Greenberg,
Bob Belton, Gabby Kirk - 11/2/67
MEMO to Radio and TV News Directors - List of outstanding LDF cases before
U. S. Supreme Court - 11/3/67 ie
TELEGRAM - LDF attorneys before U. S. Court of Appeals, Fort Worth, Texas
on discriminatory employment and promotion practices of United x
Gas Corp. - Jack Greenberg, Bob Belton, Gabby Kirk, Elmo R. a
Willard - 11/8/67 ?
TELEGRAM - LDF attorneys before Supreme Court on "freedom of choice" and ¥
school desegregation - Mike Meltsner, John Walker - 11/9/67 pe.
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MEMO to Tennessee Working Press on Knoxville School Integration suit -
Avon Williams - 11/10/67 33
TELEGRAM - LDF attorneys to appear in U. S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati
to uphold temporary restraining order on highway construction
Jack Greenberg - 11/14/67
PRESS RELEASE - Routing of Interstate highway thru Nashville Negro district
temporarily halted by LDF suit - Avon Williams, Jack Greenberg, @
James Nabrit, Charles Jones, Mike Davidson - 11.18/68
PRESS RELEASE - Court aids retarded youth interrogated by Georgia police
Jack Greenberg, Mike Meltsner, James Finney, John Ruffin -
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PRESS RELEASE - Legal drive on against inferior city services in Negro
neighborhoods - 11/24/68
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TELEGRAM - LDF attorneys will appear in Supreme Court of Florida in
Tallahassee in behalf of Negro man and white woman who were ~~
denied a marriage liscence - James Matthews, Leroy Clark
11/24/67
TELEGRAM - LDF attorneys file brief in U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
in Cincinnati for preliminary injunction to prevent construc-
tion of Interstate Highway 40 in Nashville - Mike Davidson,
Avon Williams - 11/27/67
TELEGRAM - LDF files complaint with U. S. Dept. of HEW that Camden, N.J.
hospitals discriminated in granting staff membership to Negro
physicians. - 11/30/67
PRESS RELEASE - LDF wins tuition-free New York education for Alabama
girl - Jack Greenberg —- 12/1/67
STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - on deceptive practices of door-to-door
salesmen (NORI) - 12/5/67
MEMO to Gerald Fraser and George Barner on Harlem Consumer Fraud liti-
gation (NORI - test case) - 12/5/67
PRESS RELEASE - LDF and NEA pring suit in behalf of Negro teachers
dismissed by Tennessee boards of education - Jack Greenberg,
games Nabrit, Michael Henry — 12/6/67
PRESS RELEASE - National highway construction law ignored in Tennessee,
LDF advised U. S. Court of Appeals - Avon Williams, Jack
Greenberg, James Nabrit, Charles Jones, Mike Davidson - 12/8/67
PRESS RELEASE - LDF seeks clear law on police identification of persons
charged with crime - Jack Greenberg, Tony Amsterdam, Avon
Williams, Z. Alexander, John Howland - 12/13/67
STATEMENT by Jack Greenberg - Case of Green v. County School Board of
New Kent County, Va- — 12/11/67
MEMO to Selected Washington Reporters - on Unusual urban renewal 1th
gation - 12/15/67
STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - on urban renewal (See 68) = 12/15/67
TELEGRAM - on Newark Medical School - Jack Greenberg - 12/18/67
PRESS RELEASE - Seek Supreme Court ruling on excessive bail for the
poor = Mike Meltsner, Jack Greenberg, Harold Rothwax, (MFY)
Martin Speigel (MFY) - 12/21/67
STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - on Newark Medical School (See 70) 12/429
PRESS RELEASE - American Tobacco sued for job discrimination - Julius
Chambers, Jack Greenberg, Bob Belton, Gabby Kirk - 1/4/68
STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - on employment discrimination at Philip
Morris Tobacco Company, Richmond, va. - 1/4/68
PRESS RELEASE - LDF asks U. S. Supreme Court to review Interstate High-
way construction in Nashville, Tenn. - Avon Williams, Jack
Greenberg, James Nabrit, Charles Jones, Mike Davidson, Charles
Black - 1/8/68
PRESS RELEASE - Supreme Court has halted construction of Federal Nash-
ville, Tenn. Highway —- 1/13/68
PRESS RELEASE - LDF files suit to protect consumers from unfair deals
in city ghettoes - Leroy Clark, Jack Greenberg, Phil Schra
1/11/68
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STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Monroe (school attendance zones) ,
(new school construction) New Kent County ("freedom of
school desegregation cases — 1/15/68 F
STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - U. S. Supreme Court rules
tice of providing state tuition money to finance private
segregated schools for white stiidents (Louisiana) - 1/15/68
TELEGRAM - from Jack Greenberg - hearing on Newark Medical School - 1/16
81. TELEGRAM - Dismissal of six school teachers - 1/19/68
84. PRESS RELEASE - Remarks of Jack Greenberg to members of the Chicago
Committee of the LDF and the Chicago Committee of the NNBPC
at the Arts Club - LDF to fucus on problems of the inner city
in 1968 - 1/26/68
85. STATEMENT - by Samuel M. Lambert, NEA, and Jack Greenberg, LDF - on
displacement of Negro teachers by school integration (Ashe-
boro, N.C.) - 2/8/68
86. TELEGRAM - Christian v. Board of Education of Strong school district,
Arkansas - John Walker, Norman Chachkin - 2/15/68
87. PRESS RELEASE - LDF files suit to protect consumers from unfair deals
in city ghettoes - Jack Greenberg, Leroy Clark, Phil Schrag -
3/1/68
88. PRESS RELEASE - LDF asks Supreme Court to reverse Alabama decision againsi
Rev. Shuttlesworth - Jack Greenberg, James Nabrit, Norman Ama-
ker, Charles Ralston, Mel Zarr, Tony Amsterdam, Arthur Shores,
Orzell Billingsley, dr. - 3/7/68
89. TELEGRAM - Equal employment - Leroy Clark - 3/8/68
90. TELEGRAM - Equal employment, Title VII - Bob Belton, Gabby Kirk - 3/15/68
91. MEMORANDUM - Exclusion of citizens opposed to capital punishment from
juries deciding capital cases - 3/12/68
92. MEMORANDUM - to Arkansas and St. Louis working press - First suit asking
that a dual school system be consolidated by requiring use of
replacement facilities in a particular way - John Walker - 5/8
92A PRESS RELEASE - LDF mourns Dr. King - Jack Greenberg statement - 4/5/68
93. STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Desegregation of public accommodations -
3/18/68
94. PRESS RELEASE - From Coordinating Groups to Abolish the Death Penalty
95. c/o The New York Committee to Abolish Capital Punishment —-
96. Public Workshop seeks to end Capital Punishment - 3/16/68
97. PRESS RELEASE - Job Discrimination (Rohm-Haas Chemical Co.) Houston -
3/22
98. TELEGRAM - Equal employment and job discrimination - Jefferson Chemical
5 Company and Local 1792, Beaumont, Texas - 3/28/68
99. TELEGRAM - LDF attorneys argue constitutionality of death penalty - Tony
Amsterdam, Jack Himm@lstein - 4/2/68
100. PRESS RELEASE - Background on the LDF's case challenging the constitu-
tionality of death penalty - Jack Himmelstein - 4/3/68
101. PRESS RELEASE - LDF to enforce new rights law - Statement by Jack Green-
berg on 1968 Fair Housing Act - 4/11/68
102. PRESS RELEASE - Statement by Haywood Burns - School lunch program - 4/16
103. TELEGRAM - LDF challanging racial advertising for homes in 14 southern
newspapers - Jack Greenberg - 4/26/68 2
4. TELEGRAM - National meeting for coordirGation of capital punishment 1i
igation - Jack Greenberg - 5/1/68
SS RELEASE - Statement by Jack Greenberg at National Conference:
Capital Punishment - 5/3/68
|. PRESS RELEASE - to Metropolitan News Editiors - announcing Institute on the Uses of Law in Combatting Racism and Poverty 5/15/68
PRESS RELEASE - Statement by Jack Greenberg - summary of LDF and NORT activities on eve of Institute - 5/16/68
PRESS RELEASE - Statement by Jack Greenberg - appointment of Reuben An- derson and Legal Intern Program - 5/17/68
PRESS RELEASE - IDF Institute cites creative use of law by Dr. Martin King - Statement by Jack Greenberg - 5/25/68
PRESS RELEASE ~ Reuben Anderson, 25, heads LDF program in Mississippi - 5/25/68
STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Supreme Court victories on 3 school desegregation cases - 5/27/68
PRESS RELEASE —- High court asked to review garnishment procedures of merchants & finance companies - 5/27/68
PRESS RELEASE -High court asked to review garnishment procedures of merchants and finance companies - 6/1/68
PRESS RELEASE — Supreme Court orders southern schools to speed inte- gration - 6/1/68
STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Norfolk, va. decision on location of new school construction - 5/30/68
TELEGRAM - Equal employment and job discrimination — Adam Stein - 6/4/68
STATEMENT - LDF challanges vagrancy ordinance - 6/5/68
TELEGRAM - Tests for Spanish-speaking children and placement in mentally retarded classes. - 6/5/68
TELEGRAM - Legal rights of the indigent - 6/6/68
PRESS RELEASE — UF official's son named by President (Mark Smith) - 6/8
STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - voting rights for illiterate citizens 6/10/68
STATEMENT — by Edgar Cahn, Director, Citizens' Advocate Center and Leroy Clark (Chief Counsel of PPC) - Litigation in behalf of Ppc - 6/26
TELEGRAM - Parole rights - 6/27/68
PRESS RELEASE - High rights fee awarded LDF attorney - 6/29/68
TELEGRAM - Exclusion of Negroes from jury deciding case of Negro accused of raping white woman - Peter A. Hall - 7/2/68
PRESS RELEASE - LDF lawyers win right to challange procedures of public housing projects - 7/6/68
PRESS RELEASE - PPC leaders and attorneys to confer with agriculture on $897 million - Leroy Clark - 7/8/68
PRESS RELEASE — Haywood Burns to defend Hosea Williams (PPC) 7/15/68
PRESS RELEBSE - Reversal of death penalty because of unfair jury 7/16/68
PRESS RELEASE - Statement by Jack Greenberg on Title vIt (employment conference 7/19/68
Telegrams - Enjoining city of Lansing, Mich. from conducting a referendum
which would prevent zoning for multiple low-income housing in
a previously all-white single family neighborhood. Michael
Davidson July 21, 23, and 24
TELEGRAM - Fishing rights of Oregon American Indians (Mel Zarr) 7-26-68
Telegram and Letter to Attorneys General of southern states on Jackson
v. Godwin (distribution of Negro reading material to Negro prisoners)
Mike Meltsner 7/29/68
PRESS RELEASE - NAACP LDF hails unprecedented agreement from Georgia
agency (Howard Moore) 7/31/68
STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Georgia school desegregation - 7/31/68
TELEGRAM - Housing discrimination in Texas Conrad Harper, Vilma Martinez
8-1/68
PRESS RELEASE - NAACP Legal Defense Fund charges Louisiana, Mississippi
school boards delay Supreme Court Ruling (Frank White) 8/6/68
PRESS RELEASE - LDF charges racial discrimination against Negro school
teacher in all white ten@ment (Gabby Kirk) - 8/27/68
TELEGRAM - Employment discrimination against a Negro school teacher
in Tallahassee, Fla. (Bill Robinson) - 9/3/68
PRESS RELEASE - LDF asks southern jails to allow Negroes right to
read Negro publications. 9/5/68
STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Asking that Negroes not be denied
access to Negro publications. 9/5/68
STATEMENT - by Milford Parker, M.D. - Psychiatric consultant claims
rehabilitation is helped through positive identification with communit
9/5/68
TELEGRAM - Complaint against King Ferry Migrant Labor Camp charging
interference with freedom of press, speech, assembly petition and
association. 9/3/68
PRESS RELEASE - LDF files complaint against King Ferry Migrant Labor
Camp, asking freedom of press. 9/7/68
PRESS RELEASE - LDF files complaint against YMCA for barring Negroes from
membership and reeeiving complete use of all facilities. 9/9/68
TELEGRAM - Petition filed by LDF before Supreme Court against Lake Nixon
Club in Arkansas. 9/9/68
PRESS RELEASE - A young Negro man and white woman denied marriage license
in Little Rock; Arkansas. LDF’files suit. 9/10/68
PRESS RELEASE - Petition against Lake Nixon Club in Arkansas filed by
LDF. Discrimination against 2 Negro women. 9/10/68
PRESS RELEASE - 3 Negro women file suit against Cone Mills Corporation
in Greensboro, N. C. for discrimination in hiring because of race.
9/13/68
PRESS RELEASE - Anderson v. Cox - Judge restricts right of LDF lawyers
to practice in Mississippi. U.S. Court of Appeals rules in favor of
LDF. 9/18/68
PRESS RELEASE - Birmingham native attorney U.C. Clemon teaches law col
in Alabama. 9/22/68
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TELEGRAM - U.C. Clemon recently admitted to Alabama Bar. 9/19/68
STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Utilization of national legal talent
and resources of the LDF in behalf of Miss. Negroes. 9/19/68
STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - LDF attorneys win right to interracial
marriages in Arkansas. 9/25/68
PRESS RELEASE - 2 Negro women nurses denied housing. LDF asks for end
of racial discrimination in Memphis, Tenn. 9/27/68
PRESS RELEASE - LDF seeks High Court review of Capital Punishment Cases
10/1/68
PRESS RELEASE - 14 Negro policemen in St. Petersburg Fla. denied full
duties and responsibilities of their position. LDF attorneys
William Robinson and Sanderlin ask for reversal. 10/2/68
PRESS RELEASE - Negroes ask consolidation of white and Black schools
in Sevier County, Arkansas. 10/3/68
TELEGRAM - Death penalty only for Negroes raping white women. 10/9/68
PRESS RELEASE - LDF uses hational rape survey to challenge Negro's
death sentence.was presented to the U.S. Supreme Court. 10/10/68
PRESS RELEASE - LDF attorney Norman Amaker takes case of illiterate voters
to high court. 10/15/68.
PRESS RELEASE - LDF attorney: Robert Belton files suit against American
Cast Iron Pipe Co. because of employment discrimination in Birming-
ham, Ala. 10/15/68
PRESS RELEASE - Right of prisoner’denied, charges cruel treatment with
racial discrimination.in Dannemora, New York. (Bill Turner) 10/15/@
PRESS RELEASE - YMCA does not serve 2 Negroes in Bessemer Ala. (Conrad
Harper) 10/16/68
STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Establishment of LDF office in San
Francisco. 10/17/68
PRESS RELEASE - Sylvia Drew joins LDF staff, daughter of Dr. Charles
Drew, distinguished surgeon. 10/17/68
PRESS RELEASE -. by Jesse Devore-Thorpe v. Housing Authority of the City
of Durham 10/21/68
PRESS RELEASE - Charles McLaurin urges Negroes to vote, receives 6 month
jail sentence in Mississippi. 10/25/68
PRESS RELEASE - LDF and local urban league sue to keep racially mixed
schools (Jack Greenberg, Gabby Kirk, and Frank Harding) 10/28/68
MEMO - Verifying that we are separate and distinct from NAACP legal
staff that resigned from their posts. 10/29/68
PRESS RELEASE - LDF asks Supreme Court to reverse Ala. decision against
civil rights worker, Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, 11/14/68
PRESS RELEASE - Singing of"Dixie" offensive to Negroes in Jonesboro,
Ark. high school. LDF defends right.of students to protest. 11/14/68
STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Ranjel v. City of Lansing. Housing
discrimination in north. 11/15/68
76. PRESS RELEASE - Court orders building of low-income housing in White
neighborhood. (Michael Davidson) 11/20/68.
\77. PRESS RELEASE - White teacher fired for working with Negroes.in Statesville
North Carolina. 11/26/68
178. PRESS RELEASE - Negro newspaper editor sues because of employment discri-
mination at the Memphis Publishing Company.in Tenn. 11/27/68
179. PRESS RELEASE - Racial discrimination in Alabama bowling alleys. Court
ruled public facilites cannot deny use by Negroes. 12/4/68
180. PRESS RELEASE - Death Penalty for robbery. A Negro charged with committing
5 robberies in Alabama. 12/5/68
181. PRESS RELEASE - LDF opposes lengthy jail sentences due to poverty in
St. Louis, Mo. (Michael Meltsner) 12/10/68
182. PRESS RELEASE - LDF files suit against Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Co. and
Union for racial discrimination in equaljob opportunities.in New Orleans, La
12/11/68
183. PRESS RELEASE - LDF attorneys challenge private clubs which seek to bar
Negroes.in Little Rock, Ark. (James Nabrit, Jack Greerterg,
Norman Amaker, and Conrad Harper) 12/13/68
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186. PRESS RELEASE - Géorgia Negroes ask to control their local schools in
Augusta, Ga. LDF attorneys go to Supreme Court. 12/13/68
187. PRESS RELEASE - Asa T. Spaulding honored guest speaker at fund raising
campaign to support LDF. 12/13/68
188. TELEGRAM - LDF attorney Michael Davidson speaks giving support of
community participation in high construction decisions. 12/16/68
189. PRESS RELEASE - LDF seeks reversal of death sentence on A. B. Childs of
North Carolina for burglary. 12/26/68
190 PRESS RELEASE - Alabama's jury selection statute - discriminatory exclusion
of Negroes. (Norman C. Amaker) 1/6/69
191. TELEGRAM - to Ramsey Clark asking investigation of the case of 2 Negro
students in all white school in Worth County,Georgia who were arrested
1/7/69
192. STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - protection of public housing tenants
1/14/69
193. TELEGRAM - MAXWELL V. BISHOP - campaign to end death penalty in southern
states. 1/20/69
194. PRESS RELEASE - police defamation case in Wilmington, Delaware 1/22/69