Telegrams re: Exclusion of Negro Dentists; Discriminatory Practices in Public Housing

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January 21, 1966

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Press Releases, Volume 3. Telegrams re: Exclusion of Negro Dentists; Discriminatory Practices in Public Housing, 1966. 690ae0a7-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/4f972c2e-196b-4ed3-a5a1-499ee39ce7e4/telegrams-re-exclusion-of-negro-dentists-discriminatory-practices-in-public-housing. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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HON. JOHN GARDNER, SECRETARY
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE
WASHINGTON, D. C.

U. S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR FOURTH CIRCUIT JUST HELD NORTH CAROLIN
SOCISTY AND LOCAL CHARLOTTE SOCITIES CANNOT EXCLUDE NEGRO DENTISTS.
RULING COVERS THE HUNDREDS OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SOCITIES THROUGHOUT
SOUTH THAT EXCLUDE NEGROES. THIS MAKES CLEAR THAT DEPARTMENT OF»
EDUCATION AND WELFARE MUST NOW REFUSE GRANTS TO LOCAL AND STATE SOC :
AND THEIR PARENT NATIONAL BODIES THE AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION THE:
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION THAT ARE IN VIOLATION OF THE CONST) ON
AND TITLE SIX OF CIVIL RIGHTS ACT. UNDERSTAND AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION
RECIPIENT OF SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS THIS FISCAL YEAR.

JACK GREENBERG
DIRECTOR-COUNSEL
NAACP ILZGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC.

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Mr, Robert Wood
Associated Press January 21, 1966
215 S. McDowell St.
Raleigh, N. C.

Mr, Richard W, Hatch
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
213 S, McDowell St.
Raleigh, N. C.

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Protests against discriminatory roe” in public housing
promises to be a new civil rights focus

Present demonstrations. in New Bern revolve around public ‘
housing issue. Possible contact for further information on New Bern
situation is R. M. Whitehead of that city.

EDWIN K. WILEY, ASSISTANT
PUBLIC INFCRMATION
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & ED. FUND, INC.
10 Columbus Circle, NYC #

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