Memorandum on News Conference at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel, Friday Morning, January 26, 1968

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January 25, 1968

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Press Releases, Volume 5. Memorandum on News Conference at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel, Friday Morning, January 26, 1968, 1968. edec4376-b892-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/41ca3b97-1a96-416d-964e-7ea1fc0a1bc9/memorandum-on-news-conference-at-the-sheraton-chicago-hotel-friday-morning-january-26-1968. Accessed October 09, 2025.

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    NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. 

10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 

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President 
Hon. Francis E, Rivers 

PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel 
egal efense und Jack Greenberg 

Director, Public Relations 
Jesse DeVore, Jr. 
NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487 

January 25, 1968 

MEMORANDUM 

TO: Chicago News Editors 

FROM: Jesse DeVore, Director of Public Information 

3 NEWS CONFERENCE - FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1968 

Where: Club Room, Sheraton Chicago Hotel 

505 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago 

When: This Friday 10:30 A.M. 

Who: Jack Greenberg, director-counsel, 

NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) 

What: A report on a nation-wide legal drive attacking 

problems of urban ghetto dwellers, including Chicago's participa- 

tion, will be outlined by Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) in a news 

conference, Friday morning, January 26, at 10:30 a.m. in the Club 

Room of the Sheraton Chicago, 505 North Michigan Avenue. Announce- 

ment of the LDF's association with the Chicago Legal Services 

Project in the securing of legal talent to service community 

organizations in the areas of tenant and welfare rights, collective 

bargaining agreements for tenant unions and welfare unions and 

similar litigation will be made. Mr. Greenberg will discuss a 

nationally oriented legal drive in 1968 which is greatly expanding 

programs dealing with the effect of urban renewal and federal 

highway programs on Negro ghettos, bringing additional cases 

against consumer frauds, including overcharges and excessive 

interest rates which are foisted on minority communities, and 

taking legal action against abusive police practices which have 

been the immediate cause of big city riots in the past three years. 

Mr. Greenberg will also discuss the attack on unfair and discrimi- 

natory administration of public welfare and public housing which 

have been run in ways that impair the stability of family life. 

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