Carl Rowan to Speak at NAACP Legal Fund Kickoff Dinner Here

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November 16, 1966

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Press Releases, Volume 4. Carl Rowan to Speak at NAACP Legal Fund Kickoff Dinner Here, 1966. d496f050-b792-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/5f0863b2-a041-40f3-857b-b9d8a104a623/carl-rowan-to-speak-at-naacp-legal-fund-kickoff-dinner-here. Accessed November 03, 2025.

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Hon. Francis E. Rivers
PRESS RELEASE Director Counset

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. WEDNESDAY Dieter Fable iaatins 10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 © JUdson 6.8397 November 16, 1966

Jesse DeVore, Jr.
NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487

CARL ROWAN TO SPEAK
AT NAACP LEGAL FUND
KICKOFF DINNER HERE

MINNEAPOLIS = Announcement that Carl T. Rowan, former
director of the United States Information Service and
one-time Ambassador to Finland, will speak here Thursday
evening, November 17th, was made today by Atherton Bean.

The dinner-meeting will be held at 7 pm at the Leamington
Hotel and cocktails will be served at 6 pm.

Mr. Bean is chairman of the Board of the International
Milling Company of Minneapolis and chairman of the fund
raising drive of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational
Fund, Inc. (LDF).

Under Mr, Bean's leadership, a broad cross section of
community and social leaders is organizing the event as
a first in a series of steps to understand and support
the work of LDF,

Judson Bemis, president of the Bemis Company, will serve
as Master of Ceremonies. Mr. Bemis will introduce
Mr. Rowan and his fellow speaker, Gustav Heningburg,
assistant to the president of the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, Inc.

The LDF, often called the “legal arm" of the entire civil
rights movement, through its attorneys, handles more than
90 per cent of the movement's litigation.

Although founded by the NAACP in 1939, the LDF now functions
as an independent organization and its New York staff and
southern cooperating attorneys number nearly 300.

Last year LDF lawyers fought 225 separate cases --- an in-
crease of 80 over the preceding year --- and some brought
decisions of far-reaching consequences.

In response to LDF litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court out-
lawed teacher segregation last year while staff attorneys
defended more than 14,904 peaceful demonstrators.

A full scale legal program is now being conducted to secure
Negroes equal rights in education, employment, voting and
health care.

Thus, the LDF is the largest network of legal talent of its
kind in the nation, In addition to its Southern litigation
program, the LDF now is dealing with problems of the poor in
Northern cities.

Among local sponsors of the November 17th dinner are:

Mir. & Mrs. Atherton Bean Mr. & | Burton his Joseph
Mr. & Lirs. Judson Bemis Mir, & I Donald T. Knutson
lir. & Mrs, Russell M. Bennett fir. &} Arthur C, hielamed
iit, & Mrs. James HH. Binger Mir. & | Philip Neville
tires & Mrs. Wright WW. Brooks ire & Cecil E. Newman
Dr. & irs. W.D. Brown, Jr. Mre& i Jay Phillips
Mr. & hrs. John Cowles, Jr. ix. & Luther Prince, Jr.
ir. &@ iirs. Charles |). Johnson iir. & iirs. David J. Winton

General & iirs. Edwin tJ. Rawlings
lir, &lirs. F, Peavey Heffelfinger

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