Correct Identification of LDF to Working Press

Press Release
October 14, 1965

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  • Press Releases, Volume 3. Correct Identification of LDF to Working Press, 1965. 62a90c53-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/5c5f156e-cca9-434f-bac0-e890a235d50c/correct-identification-of-ldf-to-working-press. Accessed May 17, 2025.

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ee MEMORANDUM 

is October 14, 1965 

TO: WORKING PRESS 

FROM: Jesse DeVore, Director 
Public Information 

Subject: CORRECT IDENTIFICATION OF THE NAACP LEGAL 
DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc,, was 

founded in 1939 by a group of distinguished members of the Board 

of the NAACP to carry on the legal program which it originated near 

the turn of the century. The legal program was separated from the 

Association's lobbying and propaganda work so that it could become 

a specialized organization to work closely with the Association. 

But as the civil rights revolution has spread, the Fund also has 

represented members and officers of newer organizations. Among 

them have been Martin Luther King, Jr., James Farmer, James Forman, 

Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy, and other officers and members 

of Scuc ##CORE, and SNCC, 
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PER: Jesse DeVore, 

Director of Public 
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