Legal Defense Fund Seeks $25,000 From Benefit
Press Release
January 20, 1965
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10 Columbus Circle
New York, N.Y. 10019
JUdson 6-8397
NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational Fund
PRESS RELEASE FOR RELEASE
President
Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers eee aoa:
Director-Counsel ‘
Jack Greenberg
Associate Counsel
Constance Baker Motley
LEGAL DEFENSE FUND SEEKS
$25,000.00 FROM BENEFIT
NEW YORK CITY--Eminent concert pianist Arthur Rubinstein will appear
in a benefit concert Friday evening, January 22nd, 8:30 P. M. at
Carnegie Hall on behalf of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational
Fund, Inc.
This is Mr. Rubinstein's 4th year in benefit performance for
the Legal Defense Fund.
resently, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the
legal arm of the civil rights movement, is handling 181 separate
groups of cases now in courts dealing with civil liberties and
civil rights.
In addition, Legal Defense Fund attorneys are representing
more than 12,000 individuals who have participated in various civil
rights activities.
It was established, as a separate corporation, by the NAACP in
1939 and now works with a staff of 17 full-time and 120 cooperating
attorneys.
According to Mrs. John W. Davis and Mrs. Douglass Haskell,
benefit co-chairmen of the 75-member committee, the predicted
$25,000 will be used to help meet the legal expenses of the Legal
Defense Fund estimated at $1,400,000 in 1964,
During its existence, the volunteer Benefit Committee has
raised nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
Among the subscribers to the concert are Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman,
Mrs, Harrison Tweed, Mrs. Ronald Tree, Mark Goodson, Judge and Mrs.
Francis Rivers and Dr. and Mrs. Robert C, Weaver.
Benefit tickets may be obtained by calling JUdson ¢-8397 (212).
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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 BPH