Calhoun v. Latimer Transcript of Record Volume III

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January 1, 1963

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  • Press Releases, Volume 5. Index to Volume 5, 1967. 8174a9f6-b792-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/2a2f4c6c-5c57-4bdd-9976-293be6617c14/index-to-volume-5. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS - BOOK V }- 

1. TELEGRAM - LDF Demands an investigation of racial discrimination in 

Camden, New Jersey hospitals - 6/27/67 

2. TELEGRAM - Preliminary hearing to halt execution of 61 persons sentenced 

to die for capital punishment crimes in San Francisco (Leroy 

Clark) - 6/28/67 

3. PRESS RELEASE - Halt for 61 San Quentin executions sought by NAACP Legal 

Defense Fund (Leroy Clark) - 7/1/67 E 
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5. TELEGRAM - Request appointment to outline new legal trends in hopes of if 

broad editorial treatment of LDF's new legal outlook in i 

various magazines - 7/11/67 f 

6. TELEGRAM - Five-point program by Jean Fairfax to U. S- Senate Sub-Com- t 

mittee on Education, Labor and Public Welfare - 8/14/67 

7. PRESS RELEASE - Press Conference on Exclusion of Negro athletes from 

Television commercials and a resulting complaint to the Fed- 

eral Communications Commission - 8/23/67 ‘ 

8. Same as above to radio and television v 

9.- 14. Remarks of Gus Heningburg to Overseas Press Club - 8/23/67 t 

15. Letter from Jack Greenberg to Federal Communications Commission and p 

"Report on the Frequency of Appearance of Negroes on Televised™ 

Commercials" - 8/18/67 

16..PRESS RELEASE - Survey finds Negro athletes under utilized in TV ads 

Le Legal Defense Fund files complaint with FCC - 8/26/67 

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19. PRESS RELEASE - to St. Louis, Mo. Press - Civil Rights Attorney defends 

Indigent white girl (Leroy Clark) - 8/23/67 

20. PRESS RELEASE - LDF asks High Court to Restrain "Stop and Frisk" - Jack 

21. Greenberg, James Nabrit, Mel Zarr, Michael Meltsner, Anthony 

Amsterdam, William McDaniels, Jr. - 8/29/67 

22. MEMO - to NNBPC from Gus Heningburg - re riots, NORI, legal process 

23. 8/1/67 

24. TELEGRAM - Discrimination of reading materials to prisoner - Earl Johnson | 

8/30/67 

25. NEWSPAPER ARTICLE - New York Times - Negro Athletes charge TV Slight 

8/24/67 

26. PRESS RELEASE - LDF Attorneys prevent Gov. Wallace (Alabama) from imple- 

menting an act of the legislature designed to thwart school 

desegregation (requiring students to designate the race of 

their teacher) - Mel zarr - 9/5/67 

27. TELEGRAM - LDF attorneys argue motion for preliminary injunction against 

Gov. Wallace and state officials in District Court on above j 

subject. - 9/15/67 
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28. PRESS RELEASE - Constitutional Rights of Relief recipients denied (Leroy 

29s Clark) - 9/16/68 

30. PRESS RELEASE - LDF asks Supreme Court to strike down Nashville, Tenn. Exe 

Police policy - Jack Greenberg, Michael Meltsner, Tony Amster= ) ~ 

dam, Avon Williams, Z. Alexander, John Howland - 9/27/67 

31. PRESS RELEASE - Maryland law on unwed mothers challenged as unconstitu+ 

tional - Leroy Clark, J. Franklin Bourne - 9/28/67 

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Remarks of Leroy Clark at National Conference of Negro Elected Officials, 
Univ. of Chicago, 9/30/67 

Target Areas for Legislative Reform - I. Welfare a. Eligibility b. Res- 
idence Requirements c. Rehabilitation 2. Public Housing 
3. Slum Housing 4. Indigent Customer a. Garnishment b. service a, 
of process 5. Migrant workers a. the vote b. union organiza= - " 
tion 

Suggested areas for legislative reform of the criminal process - 1. Bail 
2. Status crimes 3. Juvenile delinquincy 4. Right to Counsel 
5. Compentency to stand trial 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF asks Court of Appeals to act in behalf of youth 
interrogated by Georgia police - Jack Greenberg, James 
Finney, Michael Meltsner, John Ruffin - 10/10/67 

Statement by Jack Greenberg - on Supreme Court school desegregation de- 
cision - 10/9/67 

Statement by Jack Greenberg - on racial discrimination in juries - 10/9/67 

TELEGRAM - Capital punishment for rape (Tony Amsterdam) - 10/11/67 

PRESS RELEASE - Six Southern states lose school integration fight (See 
39) James Nabrit - 10/13/67 

PRESS RELEASE - Preston Cobb to get new Georgia trial (See 40) - 10/13/67 

PRESS RELEASE - Supreme court asked to halt southern school integration 
system (See-39 - 42) Jack Greenberg, James Nabrit, Michael 
Henry, Avon Williams, Z. Alexander Looby, J. Emmett Ballard 

- 10/19/67 

PRESS RELEASE - Georgia judge orders school construction stopped as mea- 
sure against dual system - Steve Ralston - 10/26/67 

TELEGRAM - MFY and LDF attorneys challange N. Y. State Court of Appeals 
on legal rights of the indigent - Mike Meltsner, Martin 

3 Spiegel - 10/30/67 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF claims bias by electrical workers - Jack Greenberg, 
Bob Belton, Gabby Kirk - 11/2/67 

MEMO to Radio and TV News Directors - List of outstanding LDF cases before 
U. S. Supreme Court - 11/3/67 ie 

TELEGRAM - LDF attorneys before U. S. Court of Appeals, Fort Worth, Texas 
on discriminatory employment and promotion practices of United x 
Gas Corp. - Jack Greenberg, Bob Belton, Gabby Kirk, Elmo R. a 
Willard - 11/8/67 ? 

TELEGRAM - LDF attorneys before Supreme Court on "freedom of choice" and ¥ 
school desegregation - Mike Meltsner, John Walker - 11/9/67 pe. 

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MEMO to Tennessee Working Press on Knoxville School Integration suit - 
Avon Williams - 11/10/67 33 

TELEGRAM - LDF attorneys to appear in U. S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati 
to uphold temporary restraining order on highway construction 
Jack Greenberg - 11/14/67 

PRESS RELEASE - Routing of Interstate highway thru Nashville Negro district 
temporarily halted by LDF suit - Avon Williams, Jack Greenberg, @ 
James Nabrit, Charles Jones, Mike Davidson - 11.18/68 

PRESS RELEASE - Court aids retarded youth interrogated by Georgia police 
Jack Greenberg, Mike Meltsner, James Finney, John Ruffin - 
11/18/68 . 

PRESS RELEASE - Legal drive on against inferior city services in Negro 
neighborhoods - 11/24/68 

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TELEGRAM - LDF attorneys will appear in Supreme Court of Florida in 

Tallahassee in behalf of Negro man and white woman who were ~~ 

denied a marriage liscence - James Matthews, Leroy Clark 

11/24/67 

TELEGRAM - LDF attorneys file brief in U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals 

in Cincinnati for preliminary injunction to prevent construc- 

tion of Interstate Highway 40 in Nashville - Mike Davidson, 

Avon Williams - 11/27/67 

TELEGRAM - LDF files complaint with U. S. Dept. of HEW that Camden, N.J. 

hospitals discriminated in granting staff membership to Negro 

physicians. - 11/30/67 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF wins tuition-free New York education for Alabama 

girl - Jack Greenberg —- 12/1/67 

STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - on deceptive practices of door-to-door 

salesmen (NORI) - 12/5/67 

MEMO to Gerald Fraser and George Barner on Harlem Consumer Fraud liti- 

gation (NORI - test case) - 12/5/67 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF and NEA pring suit in behalf of Negro teachers 

dismissed by Tennessee boards of education - Jack Greenberg, 

games Nabrit, Michael Henry — 12/6/67 

PRESS RELEASE - National highway construction law ignored in Tennessee, 

LDF advised U. S. Court of Appeals - Avon Williams, Jack 

Greenberg, James Nabrit, Charles Jones, Mike Davidson - 12/8/67 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF seeks clear law on police identification of persons 

charged with crime - Jack Greenberg, Tony Amsterdam, Avon 

Williams, Z. Alexander, John Howland - 12/13/67 

STATEMENT by Jack Greenberg - Case of Green v. County School Board of 

New Kent County, Va- — 12/11/67 

MEMO to Selected Washington Reporters - on Unusual urban renewal 1th 

gation - 12/15/67 

STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - on urban renewal (See 68) = 12/15/67 

TELEGRAM - on Newark Medical School - Jack Greenberg - 12/18/67 

PRESS RELEASE - Seek Supreme Court ruling on excessive bail for the 

poor = Mike Meltsner, Jack Greenberg, Harold Rothwax, (MFY) 

Martin Speigel (MFY) - 12/21/67 

STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - on Newark Medical School (See 70) 12/429 

PRESS RELEASE - American Tobacco sued for job discrimination - Julius 

Chambers, Jack Greenberg, Bob Belton, Gabby Kirk - 1/4/68 

STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - on employment discrimination at Philip 

Morris Tobacco Company, Richmond, va. - 1/4/68 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF asks U. S. Supreme Court to review Interstate High- 

way construction in Nashville, Tenn. - Avon Williams, Jack 

Greenberg, James Nabrit, Charles Jones, Mike Davidson, Charles 

Black - 1/8/68 

PRESS RELEASE - Supreme Court has halted construction of Federal Nash- 

ville, Tenn. Highway —- 1/13/68 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF files suit to protect consumers from unfair deals 

in city ghettoes - Leroy Clark, Jack Greenberg, Phil Schra 

1/11/68 
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STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Monroe (school attendance zones) , 

(new school construction) New Kent County ("freedom of 

school desegregation cases — 1/15/68 F 

STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - U. S. Supreme Court rules 



tice of providing state tuition money to finance private 
segregated schools for white stiidents (Louisiana) - 1/15/68 

TELEGRAM - from Jack Greenberg - hearing on Newark Medical School - 1/16 

81. TELEGRAM - Dismissal of six school teachers - 1/19/68 

84. PRESS RELEASE - Remarks of Jack Greenberg to members of the Chicago 
Committee of the LDF and the Chicago Committee of the NNBPC 
at the Arts Club - LDF to fucus on problems of the inner city 
in 1968 - 1/26/68 

85. STATEMENT - by Samuel M. Lambert, NEA, and Jack Greenberg, LDF - on 
displacement of Negro teachers by school integration (Ashe- 
boro, N.C.) - 2/8/68 

86. TELEGRAM - Christian v. Board of Education of Strong school district, 
Arkansas - John Walker, Norman Chachkin - 2/15/68 

87. PRESS RELEASE - LDF files suit to protect consumers from unfair deals 
in city ghettoes - Jack Greenberg, Leroy Clark, Phil Schrag - 
3/1/68 

88. PRESS RELEASE - LDF asks Supreme Court to reverse Alabama decision againsi 
Rev. Shuttlesworth - Jack Greenberg, James Nabrit, Norman Ama- 
ker, Charles Ralston, Mel Zarr, Tony Amsterdam, Arthur Shores, 
Orzell Billingsley, dr. - 3/7/68 

89. TELEGRAM - Equal employment - Leroy Clark - 3/8/68 

90. TELEGRAM - Equal employment, Title VII - Bob Belton, Gabby Kirk - 3/15/68 

91. MEMORANDUM - Exclusion of citizens opposed to capital punishment from 
juries deciding capital cases - 3/12/68 

92. MEMORANDUM - to Arkansas and St. Louis working press - First suit asking 
that a dual school system be consolidated by requiring use of 
replacement facilities in a particular way - John Walker - 5/8 

92A PRESS RELEASE - LDF mourns Dr. King - Jack Greenberg statement - 4/5/68 

93. STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Desegregation of public accommodations - 
3/18/68 

94. PRESS RELEASE - From Coordinating Groups to Abolish the Death Penalty 
95. c/o The New York Committee to Abolish Capital Punishment —- 
96. Public Workshop seeks to end Capital Punishment - 3/16/68 

97. PRESS RELEASE - Job Discrimination (Rohm-Haas Chemical Co.) Houston - 
3/22 

98. TELEGRAM - Equal employment and job discrimination - Jefferson Chemical 
5 Company and Local 1792, Beaumont, Texas - 3/28/68 

99. TELEGRAM - LDF attorneys argue constitutionality of death penalty - Tony 
Amsterdam, Jack Himm@lstein - 4/2/68 

100. PRESS RELEASE - Background on the LDF's case challenging the constitu- 
tionality of death penalty - Jack Himmelstein - 4/3/68 

101. PRESS RELEASE - LDF to enforce new rights law - Statement by Jack Green- 
berg on 1968 Fair Housing Act - 4/11/68 

102. PRESS RELEASE - Statement by Haywood Burns - School lunch program - 4/16 

103. TELEGRAM - LDF challanging racial advertising for homes in 14 southern 
newspapers - Jack Greenberg - 4/26/68 2 

4. TELEGRAM - National meeting for coordirGation of capital punishment 1i 
igation - Jack Greenberg - 5/1/68 

SS RELEASE - Statement by Jack Greenberg at National Conference: 
Capital Punishment - 5/3/68 



|. PRESS RELEASE - to Metropolitan News Editiors - announcing Institute on the Uses of Law in Combatting Racism and Poverty 5/15/68 

PRESS RELEASE - Statement by Jack Greenberg - summary of LDF and NORT activities on eve of Institute - 5/16/68 

PRESS RELEASE - Statement by Jack Greenberg - appointment of Reuben An- derson and Legal Intern Program - 5/17/68 

PRESS RELEASE - IDF Institute cites creative use of law by Dr. Martin King - Statement by Jack Greenberg - 5/25/68 
PRESS RELEASE ~ Reuben Anderson, 25, heads LDF program in Mississippi - 5/25/68 

STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Supreme Court victories on 3 school desegregation cases - 5/27/68 

PRESS RELEASE —- High court asked to review garnishment procedures of merchants & finance companies - 5/27/68 

PRESS RELEASE -High court asked to review garnishment procedures of merchants and finance companies - 6/1/68 

PRESS RELEASE — Supreme Court orders southern schools to speed inte- gration - 6/1/68 

STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Norfolk, va. decision on location of new school construction - 5/30/68 
TELEGRAM - Equal employment and job discrimination — Adam Stein - 6/4/68 
STATEMENT - LDF challanges vagrancy ordinance - 6/5/68 
TELEGRAM - Tests for Spanish-speaking children and placement in mentally retarded classes. - 6/5/68 

TELEGRAM - Legal rights of the indigent - 6/6/68 

PRESS RELEASE — UF official's son named by President (Mark Smith) - 6/8 
STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - voting rights for illiterate citizens 6/10/68 

STATEMENT — by Edgar Cahn, Director, Citizens' Advocate Center and Leroy Clark (Chief Counsel of PPC) - Litigation in behalf of Ppc - 6/26 
TELEGRAM - Parole rights - 6/27/68 

PRESS RELEASE - High rights fee awarded LDF attorney - 6/29/68 
TELEGRAM - Exclusion of Negroes from jury deciding case of Negro accused of raping white woman - Peter A. Hall - 7/2/68 
PRESS RELEASE - LDF lawyers win right to challange procedures of public housing projects - 7/6/68 

PRESS RELEASE - PPC leaders and attorneys to confer with agriculture on $897 million - Leroy Clark - 7/8/68 

PRESS RELEASE — Haywood Burns to defend Hosea Williams (PPC) 7/15/68 
PRESS RELEBSE - Reversal of death penalty because of unfair jury 7/16/68 
PRESS RELEASE - Statement by Jack Greenberg on Title vIt (employment conference 7/19/68 



Telegrams - Enjoining city of Lansing, Mich. from conducting a referendum 
which would prevent zoning for multiple low-income housing in 
a previously all-white single family neighborhood. Michael 
Davidson July 21, 23, and 24 

TELEGRAM - Fishing rights of Oregon American Indians (Mel Zarr) 7-26-68 

Telegram and Letter to Attorneys General of southern states on Jackson 
v. Godwin (distribution of Negro reading material to Negro prisoners) 

Mike Meltsner 7/29/68 

PRESS RELEASE - NAACP LDF hails unprecedented agreement from Georgia 

agency (Howard Moore) 7/31/68 

STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Georgia school desegregation - 7/31/68 

TELEGRAM - Housing discrimination in Texas Conrad Harper, Vilma Martinez 
8-1/68 

PRESS RELEASE - NAACP Legal Defense Fund charges Louisiana, Mississippi 
school boards delay Supreme Court Ruling (Frank White) 8/6/68 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF charges racial discrimination against Negro school 

teacher in all white ten@ment (Gabby Kirk) - 8/27/68 

TELEGRAM - Employment discrimination against a Negro school teacher 

in Tallahassee, Fla. (Bill Robinson) - 9/3/68 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF asks southern jails to allow Negroes right to 

read Negro publications. 9/5/68 

STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Asking that Negroes not be denied 

access to Negro publications. 9/5/68 

STATEMENT - by Milford Parker, M.D. - Psychiatric consultant claims 

rehabilitation is helped through positive identification with communit 

9/5/68 

TELEGRAM - Complaint against King Ferry Migrant Labor Camp charging 

interference with freedom of press, speech, assembly petition and 

association. 9/3/68 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF files complaint against King Ferry Migrant Labor 

Camp, asking freedom of press. 9/7/68 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF files complaint against YMCA for barring Negroes from 

membership and reeeiving complete use of all facilities. 9/9/68 

TELEGRAM - Petition filed by LDF before Supreme Court against Lake Nixon 

Club in Arkansas. 9/9/68 

PRESS RELEASE - A young Negro man and white woman denied marriage license 

in Little Rock; Arkansas. LDF’files suit. 9/10/68 

PRESS RELEASE - Petition against Lake Nixon Club in Arkansas filed by 

LDF. Discrimination against 2 Negro women. 9/10/68 

PRESS RELEASE - 3 Negro women file suit against Cone Mills Corporation 

in Greensboro, N. C. for discrimination in hiring because of race. 

9/13/68 

PRESS RELEASE - Anderson v. Cox - Judge restricts right of LDF lawyers 

to practice in Mississippi. U.S. Court of Appeals rules in favor of 

LDF. 9/18/68 

PRESS RELEASE - Birmingham native attorney U.C. Clemon teaches law col 

in Alabama. 9/22/68 



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TELEGRAM - U.C. Clemon recently admitted to Alabama Bar. 9/19/68 

STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Utilization of national legal talent 

and resources of the LDF in behalf of Miss. Negroes. 9/19/68 

STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - LDF attorneys win right to interracial 

marriages in Arkansas. 9/25/68 

PRESS RELEASE - 2 Negro women nurses denied housing. LDF asks for end 

of racial discrimination in Memphis, Tenn. 9/27/68 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF seeks High Court review of Capital Punishment Cases 

10/1/68 

PRESS RELEASE - 14 Negro policemen in St. Petersburg Fla. denied full 

duties and responsibilities of their position. LDF attorneys 

William Robinson and Sanderlin ask for reversal. 10/2/68 

PRESS RELEASE - Negroes ask consolidation of white and Black schools 

in Sevier County, Arkansas. 10/3/68 

TELEGRAM - Death penalty only for Negroes raping white women. 10/9/68 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF uses hational rape survey to challenge Negro's 

death sentence.was presented to the U.S. Supreme Court. 10/10/68 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF attorney Norman Amaker takes case of illiterate voters 

to high court. 10/15/68. 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF attorney: Robert Belton files suit against American 

Cast Iron Pipe Co. because of employment discrimination in Birming- 

ham, Ala. 10/15/68 

PRESS RELEASE - Right of prisoner’denied, charges cruel treatment with 

racial discrimination.in Dannemora, New York. (Bill Turner) 10/15/@ 

PRESS RELEASE - YMCA does not serve 2 Negroes in Bessemer Ala. (Conrad 

Harper) 10/16/68 

STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Establishment of LDF office in San 

Francisco. 10/17/68 

PRESS RELEASE - Sylvia Drew joins LDF staff, daughter of Dr. Charles 

Drew, distinguished surgeon. 10/17/68 

PRESS RELEASE -. by Jesse Devore-Thorpe v. Housing Authority of the City 
of Durham 10/21/68 

PRESS RELEASE - Charles McLaurin urges Negroes to vote, receives 6 month 

jail sentence in Mississippi. 10/25/68 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF and local urban league sue to keep racially mixed 

schools (Jack Greenberg, Gabby Kirk, and Frank Harding) 10/28/68 

MEMO - Verifying that we are separate and distinct from NAACP legal 

staff that resigned from their posts. 10/29/68 

PRESS RELEASE - LDF asks Supreme Court to reverse Ala. decision against 

civil rights worker, Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, 11/14/68 

PRESS RELEASE - Singing of"Dixie" offensive to Negroes in Jonesboro, 

Ark. high school. LDF defends right.of students to protest. 11/14/68 

STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - Ranjel v. City of Lansing. Housing 

discrimination in north. 11/15/68 



76. PRESS RELEASE - Court orders building of low-income housing in White 

neighborhood. (Michael Davidson) 11/20/68. 

\77. PRESS RELEASE - White teacher fired for working with Negroes.in Statesville 

North Carolina. 11/26/68 

178. PRESS RELEASE - Negro newspaper editor sues because of employment discri- 

mination at the Memphis Publishing Company.in Tenn. 11/27/68 

179. PRESS RELEASE - Racial discrimination in Alabama bowling alleys. Court 

ruled public facilites cannot deny use by Negroes. 12/4/68 

180. PRESS RELEASE - Death Penalty for robbery. A Negro charged with committing 

5 robberies in Alabama. 12/5/68 

181. PRESS RELEASE - LDF opposes lengthy jail sentences due to poverty in 

St. Louis, Mo. (Michael Meltsner) 12/10/68 

182. PRESS RELEASE - LDF files suit against Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Co. and 

Union for racial discrimination in equaljob opportunities.in New Orleans, La 

12/11/68 

183. PRESS RELEASE - LDF attorneys challenge private clubs which seek to bar 

Negroes.in Little Rock, Ark. (James Nabrit, Jack Greerterg, 

Norman Amaker, and Conrad Harper) 12/13/68 

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186. PRESS RELEASE - Géorgia Negroes ask to control their local schools in 

Augusta, Ga. LDF attorneys go to Supreme Court. 12/13/68 

187. PRESS RELEASE - Asa T. Spaulding honored guest speaker at fund raising 

campaign to support LDF. 12/13/68 

188. TELEGRAM - LDF attorney Michael Davidson speaks giving support of 
community participation in high construction decisions. 12/16/68 

189. PRESS RELEASE - LDF seeks reversal of death sentence on A. B. Childs of 

North Carolina for burglary. 12/26/68 

190 PRESS RELEASE - Alabama's jury selection statute - discriminatory exclusion 

of Negroes. (Norman C. Amaker) 1/6/69 

191. TELEGRAM - to Ramsey Clark asking investigation of the case of 2 Negro 

students in all white school in Worth County,Georgia who were arrested 
1/7/69 

192. STATEMENT - by Jack Greenberg - protection of public housing tenants 
1/14/69 

193. TELEGRAM - MAXWELL V. BISHOP - campaign to end death penalty in southern 

states. 1/20/69 

194. PRESS RELEASE - police defamation case in Wilmington, Delaware 1/22/69

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