Telegram re: LDF's Appeal in New Orleans to Reverse Convictions of 5 Albany Negroes

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Press Releases, Volume 3. Telegram re: LDF's Appeal in New Orleans to Reverse Convictions of 5 Albany Negroes, 1965. fad37b8f-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/7ecc0f88-1c6c-41a7-bbcf-e8d5b98e1653/telegram-re-ldfs-appeal-in-new-orleans-to-reverse-convictions-of-5-albany-negroes. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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NAACP Legal Defense, & Educational Fund DirectorsCounsel Jack 

Greenberg Friday (Dec. 17) will ask the Fifth U. S, Circuit Court of 

Appeals 
Ga., Negroes. 

The Legal Defense fund ap 

jury lists in the district in w ich the cases were tried denies the 

Constitutional right to due process of law. 

Four other cases which raise similar 

the three-judge Fifth Circuit panel beginning 

A federal district court jury in Macon 

of lying to a federal grand jury in 1963. 

Besides Mr. Greenberg, attorneys for the 

Nabrit III of New York, C, B. King of Albany, 

of Atlanta. 
EDWIN WILEY, ASSISTANT, PUBLIC INFORMATION 
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND L 

December 15, 1965 

Thursday (Dec. 16 

n New Orleans to reverse the perjury convictions of five Albany, 

eal alleges that exclusion of Negroes from 

issues are also ak heard by 

found the five Negroes guilty 

five Negroes are James. Ms 
Ga., and Donald L. Hollowell

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