Elevator Operator Willis Insurance, Savings to NAACP Legal Defense Fund

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January 26, 1956

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    ARNOLD DE MILLE 
101 Park Avenue 
Suite 1835 
New York, New York 
LExington 2, 3783 

January 26, 1956 

ELEVATOR OPERATOR WILLS INSURANCE, SAVINGS 
TO NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND 

NEW YORK.--Last Tuesday, Wallace McNab, 2, of 92 Atlantic Ave., 

Brooklyn, an unemployed elevator operator, walked into the Harlem 

office of Atty. Cora T. Walker, of the law firm of Doles, Sandifer and 

Walker, He told her he wanted to join the NAACP, will his life sav- 

ings and insurance policy to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 

Fund, Inc., and make a $20.00 contribution to it. 

"I read an article in a newspaper where Mr. Thurgood Marshall said 

there is no point in us getting mad at the white citizens! councils 

for what they're doing to our folks in the South if we don't put up 

money to pay the bills for integration and full citizenship," McNab 

told Atty. Walker. 

He said he wants to do what he can to help the NAACP Legal 

Defense Fund in the big fight. He couldn't make a large contribution. 

He is receiving unemployment insurance, doesn't have a family and needs 

very little to live on. liaking the Legal Defense Fund beneficiary of 

his insurance and savings and contributing the {§:20.00 now is the best 

way he knew how to do his part at this time. 

McNab's bank balance was $1,200 and his insurance policy is for 

$500. Atty. Walker asked him if he was sure he wanted to will all of 

his assets to the Legal Defense Fund. 

"I thought it over carefully since I read the article," he replied. 

"That is what I wmt to do." 

When he asked Atty, Walker about a fee for drawing up the papers 

and taking care of all the details, she replied: 

"Mr. McNab, the highest fee you can possibly pay me is the honor 

of preparing these papers for you." 

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