LDF Challenges Vagrancy Ordinance
Press Release
June 5, 1968

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Press Releases, Volume 5. LDF Challenges Vagrancy Ordinance, 1968. afa265b4-b892-ee11-be37-6045bddb811f. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/79f7c84c-4623-4a75-ac46-4d36626cf43c/ldf-challenges-vagrancy-ordinance. Accessed August 19, 2025.
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117 Attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) successfully challenged the constitutionality of the vagrancy ordinance of the town of Dunn, N.C. which was the basis | ofa campaign to arrest and convict non-workers. Judge Robert w. Hemphill ruled in the U.S, in Raleigh today that "the Dunn ordinan tainable standard of guild, or specific act." in any way. District Court ce specifies no ascer- and, in actuality, forbids no definite He enjoined further application of the ordinance Vagrancy laws, LDF attorneys said, have traditionally been applied as tools of Oppression of poor persons and members of minority groups, and today's decision will help put an end to that practice. Released to: Upt - Raleigh, N.c. AP = N.Y.