Appeal to Reverse Abernathy Charge, Challenge South Carolina Anti-Protest Laws (Telegram)

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December 4, 1969

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Press Releases, Volume 6. Appeal to Reverse Abernathy Charge, Challenge South Carolina Anti-Protest Laws (Telegram), 1969. 7bb7e3de-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/3b1b11e4-cbc6-4088-b699-e0159838b37a/appeal-to-reverse-abernathy-charge-challenge-south-carolina-anti-protest-laws-telegram. Accessed July 13, 2025.

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after 8 P.M. is being challenged in U.s. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Friday, December 5, by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educationa Fund, Ine. *
The case rises from the vecent campaign to improve job conditions and salaries of Negro workers at South Carolina Medical College and y Charleston County Hospital. Appellants, the Reverends Ralph D. Abernathy, — Hosea L. Wiliiams, Andrew J. Young and other officials of the Southern | Christian Leadership Conference, They seek through the LDF, to reverse a U.S. District Court ruling issued in Charleston on October 11, 1969, S which rejected, without hearing, their complaint seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. tLpr is asking the @ourt of Appeals to reverse the district court, reinstate SCLC's complaint, issue a declaratory judgment and written jurisdiction of their claims for injunctive release. For further information, contact LDF attorney Melvin Zarr at (212) peas" 586-8397.

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