Top Jack and Jill Officers Visit Legal Defense Fund
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April 14, 1966

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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. 2a0= Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 te)