Top Jack and Jill Officers Visit Legal Defense Fund
Press Release
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.
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