Memorandum Re: Proper Identification of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Press Release
September 8, 1969

Cite this item

Memorandum Re: Proper Identification of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. preview

Document text

The following text has been generated automatically during the document scanning process. It may contain errors, omissions, or incorrect formatting. Please refer to the PDF document if this text is not usable.

Download

By downloading, publishing, or reusing the Materials outside of the Website, you hereby confirm and attest that you have read and agree to the LDF Archival Collection Terms of Use linked below. We draw your attention to the following:

For those Materials owned by LDF, your use of the Material outside the Site is solely for one or more of the following (the “Permitted Purposes”):

Non-commercial research and private study;
Teaching, scholarship and instruction (including distance learning);
Non-commercial print and non-commercial online use;
Criticism, comment or news reporting; or
For people with visual disabilities (See Section 121 of the Copyright Act).
For those Materials not owned by LDF you understand that:
- It is your responsibility to determine whether the way you plan to use the materials falls within the copyright exception of Fair Use.
- For any use outside of Fair Use, it is your responsibility to seek and obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders.

LDF hereby grants you the right to use LDF owned Materials for the Permitted Purposes without seeking further permission from LDF.

If you publish or redistribute any Materials (including excerpts and quotes), you must include a credit line and/or proper citation to the source of the Material. However, you may not use the name of LDF in any manner which creates any false association between you and LDF or that incorrectly implies any sponsorship or endorsement of you by LDF.

NOTICE: Uses that do not comply with these Terms or that do not fall under Fair Use (or another exception) may make you liable for copyright infringement.

Read the full LDF Archival Collection Terms of Use Here.

I agree to the terms and conditions for use of this content.

If you would like to use this content in other ways, contact us at .

Collection
- Press Releases
Creator
- LDF
Taxonomy
Identifier
- ea3c8ec0-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b

Cite this item

Press Releases, Volume 6. Memorandum Re: Proper Identification of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., 1969. ea3c8ec0-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/4e593fda-3935-4e53-a4f9-d4f39e5c3651/memorandum-re-proper-identification-of-the-naacp-legal-defense-and-educational-fund-inc. Accessed November 23, 2025.

Copied!

    LS 
President 

Hon. Francis E. Rivers 
PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel 

egal efense if und Jack Greenberg 
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL-BUND; {NC sg ete 
10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 %JUdséff 6-8397 lesse DeVore, Jr. 

NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487 

September 8, 1969 

MEMORANDUM 

TO: Boston Television, Radio and Newspaper Journalists 

RE: Proper Identification of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 

Fund, Inc. 

This memorandum is an attempt to head off a mistake frequently made 

by well-intentioned journalists. We refer to the understandable 

confusion between the two organizations, the NAACP and the NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). These are separate 

distinct, and individual organizations. 

The LDF was established as an independent organization by the NAACP 

in 1939. The purpose was to raise tax-free monies for litigation 

and to remove the legal fight from routine organizational confine- 

ments. 

Since 1939 the LDF has grown and now serves as the legal arm of the 

entire civil rights movement. Today our attorneys represent all of 

the major civil rights groups and any individual with a bonafide 

civil rights claim. 

Our cofrect designation is the "NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 

Fund, Inc.", but since this is admittedly long, we shortened it to 

the “NAACP Legal Defense Fund," or to "LDF." 

WHAT HAS THE LDF DONE? 

For the past 30 years, the LDF has led the long struggle to secure 

full constitutional rights for every Negro through process of law. 

Hence, the LDF has been responsible for the major breakthroughs in 

the courts, breakthroughs which have paved the way for historic 

advances, including the 1954 decision of the United States Supreme 

Court outlawing segregation in public schools. 

The Director-Counsel of the LDF is Jack Greenberg, successor to 

Thurgood Marshall, now a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He 

heads a staff of 25 New York based lawyers who work with more than 

300 cooperating attorneys stationed across the country. 

=306

Copyright notice

This collection and the tools to navigate it (the “Collection”) are available to the public for general educational and research purposes, as well as to preserve and contextualize the history of the content and materials it contains (the “Materials”). Like other archival collections, such as those found in libraries, LDF owns the physical source Materials that have been digitized for the Collection; however, LDF does not own the underlying copyright or other rights in all items and there are limits on how you can use the Materials. By accessing and using the Material, you acknowledge your agreement to the Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Materials.

Additional info

To the extent that LDF includes information about the Materials’ origins or ownership or provides summaries or transcripts of original source Materials, LDF does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of such information, transcripts or summaries, and shall not be responsible for any inaccuracies.

Memorandum Re: Proper Identification of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Collection

Creator

Taxonomy

Identifier

Cite this item

Copyright notice

Additional info

You may also be interested in