Invitation to NAACP LDF Annual Institute
Press Release
May 1, 1977

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29% 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 (more)