High Rights Fee Awarded Legal Defense Fund Attorney

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Press Releases, Volume 5. High Rights Fee Awarded Legal Defense Fund Attorney, 1968. 48e291c0-b892-ee11-be37-6045bddb811f. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/4add6ccb-1931-48ed-b737-4fd7795f4d71/high-rights-fee-awarded-legal-defense-fund-attorney. Accessed October 08, 2025.

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PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel 

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Director, Public Relations 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. Jesse DeVore, Jr. 

10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 
NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487 

FOR RELEASE 
SATURDAY 
June 29, 1968 

HIGH RIGHTS FEE AWARDED 

LEGAL DEFENSE FUND ATTORNEY 

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA --- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 

Inc. (LDF) cooperating attorn@y Oscar w. Adams, Jr. of this city 

disclosed this week that he was awarded $1,000 by a U. S. District 

Court in Alabama for successfully pleading a civil case involving 

three Negroes who were refused entrance to an Alabama summer re- 

sort. 

The $1,000 fee is thought to be the largest amount ever V 

awarded for a case based on the 1964 Civil Rights Act. 

LDF attorneys say that the unusual fee means that more per~ 

sons who refuse others access to public facilities because of race 

will be brought to trial and, when found guilty, will be strapped 

with higher legal fees. 

Plaintiffs in the case were Dr. Neil Friedman, and Annette 

and Paulette Hughes, who sued through their father, McKinley Hughes 

They brought charges against an Alabama corporation which 

owns and operates a resort facility in the state. The court ruled 

that they had been denied entrance to the resort because they are 

Negroes. 

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EDITOR'S NOTE: The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. 

(LDF), which has more cases before the U. S. Supreme Court than 

any other private agency, is a separate and distinct organization 

from the NAACP, Its correct designation is NAACP Legal Defense 

and Educational Fund, Inc., which is shortened to LDF. 
and Education?

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