NAACP Legal Defense Fund Gets $50,00 from Fund for the Republic

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October 28, 1955

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
107 WEST 43 STREET * NEW YORK 36, N. Y¥. © JUdson 6-8397 
ARTHUR B. SPINGARN THURGOOD MARSHALL 
President Director and Counsel 

WALTER WHITE ROBERT L. CARTER 
Secretary Assistant Counsel 

ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS ARNOLD DE MILLE 
Treosurer Press Relations 

FOR RELEASE: TUESDAY A.M., November 1 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND GETS $50,000 
FROM FUND FOR THE REPUBLIC 

October 28, 1955 

NEW YORK.--A $50,000 grant was made to the NAACP Legal Defense 

and Educational Fund, Inc. by the Fund for the Republic, Thurgood 

Marshall, Director-Counsel of Legal Defense, announced today. 

The grant is the first made to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund by 

the Fund for the Republic and is the largest given to it by any fund 

since the May 17, 1954 U. S. Supreme Court decision proclaiming segre- 

gation in public schools a violation of the Federal Constitution. 

The Fund for the Republic is an independent corporation founded 

in 1952 to promote the principles of the Constitution and the Declara- 

tion of Independence. More than one-third of the Fund's grants so far 

have been to support activities combating racial discrimination. 

Among other organizations seeking the elimination of segregation 

and discrimination which have received grants from the Fund are the 

Southern Regional Council in Atlanta, Ga.; Catholic Interracial Council 

of Chicago, to help mitigate the acute racial tension developed in the 

Trumbull Park Houses; the National Council of Churches of Christ in 

the United States; the Law School of Vanderbilt University; the 

American Friends Service Committee, and the Board of Social and Econo- 

mic Relations of the Methodist Church. 

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., a tax-exempt 

organization, was founded in 1940 to render legal did to Negroes who 

suffer legal injustices because of their race or color and cannot 

afford to employ legal assistance, and to seek and promote educational 

opportunities denied to Negroes because of their race and color. 

Mr. Marshall, in making the announcement of the grant, said the 

money will be used "for the purpose of continuing our fight to remove 

all forms of discrimination against Negro citizens in education." 

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