Rose Morgan Party Raises $5,000 for Legal Defense

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Press Releases, Loose Pages. Rose Morgan Party Raises $5,000 for Legal Defense, 1953. 2d09add2-bb92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/3bf73904-7128-47bb-ba8d-5ebe69d1e217/rose-morgan-party-raises-5-000-for-legal-defense. Accessed November 01, 2025.

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
107 WEST 43 STREET * NEW YORK 36, N. Y. © JUdson 6-8397 

THURGOOD MARSHALL 
ARTHUR B. SPINGARN Director and Counsel 

eee L ROBERT L. CARTER WALTER WHITE Assistant Couneel 
aR ARNOLD DE MILLE 
ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS Pree: Reletions 
Treasurer 

FOR RELEASE; October 29, 1953 

ROSE MORGAN PARTY RAISES 
$5,000 FOR LEGAL DEFENSE October 29, 1963 

NEW YORK, Oct. 29,-- More than $5,000 was raised at a cocktail party for the 

“NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in the beauti ful and spacious home of Miss 

Rose Morgan in St, Albans. Miss Morgan, nationally known business woman made her home 

available for the occassion and introduced Thurgood Marshall, the Fund's director and 

counsel, 

After Mr. Marshall recounted the legal efforts to break down segregation and the 

vast sums required to carry on this work, Herbert T. Miller appealed to the guests 

for contributions to help finance the public school segregation cases to be argued 

before the United States Supreme Court in December, 

In response to this appeal an anonymous contributor gave $1000. There were $500 
contributions by Dr. and Mrs. Ernest R. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Friedman, Neil 

Scott, Dr. C.'M. Reid and Lionel de Silva. Earles and Earles, Inc., gave $125. Con- 

tributions of $100 each were made by Dr. Clarence Q, Pair, C. D. King and the sales 

force of the United Mutual Life Insurance Company through Ralph Parsons. Fifty 

dollar contributions were made by Mr. and Mrs, William Hudgins, W.D. Hicks and 

Doctors Alma Haskins, George Dockery and James Parker, Sr., of Red Bank, N.J. 

The following gave $25 each: Barnet Ginsburg, John ¥. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. P, 

Albert Dade, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Wright, Atlanta; Dr. Frank C. Johnson, Mrs. Brett 

Howard, Rudolph J. Thomas, Mrs. Ernesta G, Bowman, Mr, and Mrs. Christopher Pryor, 

Jr., Benjamin Starr, Hulan Jack, Mrs. Marguerite Bynum, William P, Grayson, Arthur 

R. Williams, Grant’s Employment Agency, New York Chapter, Morris Brown College 

Alumni, Leopold Altman, Dr. Richard Carey, Mr. and Mrs. George A, Sealey ,Sr,,\ir. and 

Mrs, Irving A, Baker, Mrs. Sallye B. Walker, Dr. Marcus Carpenter, Dr. James Jones, 

Mr. and irs, Reginald A, Johnson, Frederick Weaver, and Louis Saunders of Jersey 

City each gave $20. Ten dollar contributors included Miss Iris H. Potts, Miss Grace 

Outlaw, William C, Raines, Mr. and firs. Potts, Dr. and Mrs, Alphonse Henningburg, 

Dr. Jesse Miller, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bostic. 

Other contributors were tir, and Mrs. llarold R. Weaver, Dr. and Nirs. Arthur BR. 

Thomas, Commissioner William Rowe, Dr. and \rs. Anthony, Mrs. Ruby Nicholas, Major 

Robinson, Dr. Kenneth ticClane, Mrs. Altonell Mathews, Mrs. Anne Smith, William Glover, 

Marjorie Costa and Thelma Bell,

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