Los Angeles Church Gives $1,500 to NAACP Legal Fund

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
107 WEST 43 STREET *© NEW YORK 36, N. Y. 

ARTHUR B. SPINGARN 
President 

WALTER WHITE 
Secretary 
ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS 
Treasurer 

JUdson 6-8397 

THURGOOD MARSHALL 
Director and Counsel 

ROBERT L. CARTER 
Assistant Counsel 

ARNOLD DE MILLE 
Press Relations 

FOR RELEASE: August 20, 1953 

LOS ANGELES CHURCH GIVES 
$1,500 TO NAACP LEGAL FUND August 20, 1953 

NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-- A contribution of $1,500 toward the expenses of the public 

school segregation cases has been received by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 

Fund from the Second Baptist Church of Los Angeles, Calif., it was announced today by 

Thurgood Marshall, Fund director. 

The sum was raised by the Rev. J. Raymond Henderson, pastor of the Church, as an 

after-offering at a Sunday morning service. Rev. Henderson wrote: "It has given me 

great pleasure to do this and our Church deserves justifiable credit." He directed 

that all the money go to the "EE" (Educational Equality) Fund being raised by the 

Legal Defense Fund in cooperation with the Pittsburgh Courier and other newspapers. 

Rev. Henderson has long been a supporter of the NAACP during his years at the Mt. 

Olivet Baptist Church in New York, his pastorate of the famed Wheat Street Baptist 

Church in ‘Atlanta, and his present post at the Great Second Baptist Church in Los 

Angeles. He is one of the leading candidates for the office of President of the Nation- 

al Baptist Convention at its meeting in Miami, Fla., in September. He and his Church 

were hosts to the 40th annual convention of the NAACP held in Los Angeles in 1949. 

Dr. E. I, Robinson, chairman of the Second Baptist Board of Trustees, is also Presi- 

dent of the Los Angeles Branch of the NAACP. 

"This is the largest contribution to these cases that has come from a local group 

anywhere in the Nation," Mr. Marshall said, “and when the great issue of public school 

segregation is finally decided by the Supreme Court, Rev. Henderson and the Second 

Baptist Church in Los Angeles will have the satisfaction of being in the forefront of 

those who made the fight possible. A large staff of lawyers and research workers has 

been at work right through the Summer on the material that must be submitted to the 

highest court before our oral argument now set for December 7. The fight is a costly 

one and we trust that the generous gift of the Second Baptist Church of Los Angeles 

will inspire other churches, organizations and individuals to send contributions. The 

entire race has a stake in these cases and if we win, the entire race wins."

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