Poor People's Campaign Leaders and Attorneys to Confer with Agriculture on $897 Million

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July 8, 1968

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10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 MONDAY NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487
July 8, 1968

POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN LEADERS
AND ATTORNEYS TO CONFER WITH
AGRICULTURE ON $897 MILLION

Conference During Week of July 8 Follows Litigation

WASHINGTON, D.C.---U.S. Department of Agriculture officials will meet with representatives of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
and their attorneys this week to discuss spending of $870 million for
food during the next fiscal year.

The meeting came about after attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Citizen's Advocate Center
filed suit in U.S. District Court on June 26, according to LDF attor-
ney Leroy Clark.

Mr. Clark, the number three man on the LDF's New York head- 4 quarters staff, serves as general counsel of the Poor People's Cam- re paign.
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fee The monies to be discussed are administered by the Department of ea Agriculture under Section 32 of Public Law 320, which covers food commodity programs and price supports.
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Acting in behalf of the Poor People's Campaign, the attorneys filed suit on June 26 in the U.S. District Court here.

They asked for a temporary restraining order to halt return of $227 million by the Department of Agriculture to the U.S. Treasury on July 1.

The attorneys asked the court to prevent Secretary Orville
Freeman from returning any funds to the Treasury until the purposes for which the funds are made available have been substantially ful- filled.

The two legal organizations also asked that the funds be with- held until needy families across the country have been effectively assisted.

The plaintiffs were SCLC and various needy persons denied ade- quate nutrition because of the Department of Agriculture's failure to provide effective food assistance in various counties throughout the United States.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: For further information, contact LDF attorney Leroy
Clark at 202-783-3013.

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