Invitation to NAACP LDF Annual Institute

Press Release
May 1, 1977

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From: Norman Bloomfield 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. 
me a% 10 Columbus Circle 

‘ New York, N.Y. 10019 

212- 586-8397 

MEMO TO CITY DESK AND FEATURE EDITOR 

You are invited to cover the annual Institute of the NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to be held at the Americana 

Hotel (New York City) on Friday, May 20. 

About 1,500 civil rights advocates from all parts of the 

country are expected to attend the all-day meeting which will 

focus on key issues relating to education, employment, health 

care and the administration of justice. A large part of the 

program will be devoted to urban and New York City problems. 

Among the panelists will be: 

* Joseph N. Onek, Special As ant to the President for 
Health, Domestic Policy Sta He will report on "Cost 
Containment and American Health Policy," and will dis- 
cuss prospects for a national health insurance program. 

Ernest G. Green, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor, and 
Peter B. Edelman, Director, New York State Division for 
Youth, will report on projected government and private 
sector programs to train and provide work for millions 
of unemployed minority youth. 

Bernard R. Gifford, Deputy Chancellor, New york City 
Board of Education, will discuss problems of quality 
and inequality in our school system; and Kellis BE. Parker, 
Professor of Law, Columbia University, will report on 
implications of the Bakke case to be argued next Term 
in the U.S. Supreme Court. 

Congressman Abner J. Mikva of Illinois, will discuss 
crime, law enforcement and punishment in the U.S. at 
a session moderated by James Vorenberg, Professor of 
Law, Harvard University. 

Allard K. Lowenstein, U.S. Representative, 33rd Session of 

the U.N. Human Rights Commission, will present the keynote 

address on Human Rights at home and abroad at the Institute 

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