Top Jack and Jill Officers Visit Legal Defense Fund

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    10 Columbus Cirele 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
JUdson 6-8397 

NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
; PRESS RELEASE 

President 
Hon. Francis E. Rivers FOR RELEASE 

Director-Counsel Thursday, 
Jack Greenberg April 14, 1966 

TOP JACK*AND JILL OFFICERS 
VISIT LEGAL DEFENSE FUND 

NEW YORK~---Seven top officers of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. 

visited the offices of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 

Fund here today, 

Jack and Jill, an organization of more than 5,000 mothers 

striving to promote opportunities for educational, cultural, social, 

recreational and emotional growth through group experiences, is 

presently engaged in a national project to raise money for the 

Legal Defense Fund, 

An announcement of the amount raised in the two-year project 

is expected to be made when representatives of the organization's 

115 chapters convene in Atlanta, Ga,, this June. 

In today's day-long briefing, Jack and Jiil's national 

officers, joined by officers from metropolitan New York chapters, 

were given a comprehensive picture of the Legal Defense Fund's 

diverse activities. 

The Legal Defense Fund, founded in 1939 as an independent, 

non-profit, tax-dedictible organization, now is responsible 

for an estimated 90 per cent of all civil rights litigation not 

handled by the U. S. Department of Justice. 

Working through the courts towards the goal of equal rights, 

the Fund represents members of all major civil rights organizations 

as well as individuals without organizational affiliation who have 

legitimate civil rights complaints. 

Since its incorporation in 1946, Jack and Jill's national 
projects have included the National Foundation for Infantile 
Paralysis and research for mental health and rheumatic fever. 

Jack and Jill national officers attending the briefing were: 
Mrs. Margaret E. Simms of St. Louis, Mo., president; Mrs. 
Jacqueline Robison of Washington, D. C., vice-president; Mrs. 
Catherine A, Phillips of San Diego, Calif., treasurer. 

Also, Mrs, Junauid N. Braddock of St. Paul, Minn., 
secretary; Mrs. Ada C. Anderson of Austin, Texas, corres 
secretary; Mrs. Aurelia T. James of Chattanooga, Tenn., program 
director, and Mrs. Ray N, Moore of Durham, N. C., editor. 

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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 te)

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