Telegram re: "Substitute Policies" Program
Press Release
January 30, 1966
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Press Releases, Volume 3. Telegram re: "Substitute Policies" Program, 1966. 008dfbb3-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/7e69468b-e45e-49ba-9854-c40ba844d0c2/telegram-re-substitute-policies-program. Accessed November 23, 2025.
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(See.attached list) January 30, 1966
The "substitute parent" policies interfere with the rights and privacy
- and free association of welfare(clients in a manner which frustrates
-- both the purposes of the AFDC program and the protections of the
Fourteenth Amendment. When a needy mother whose husband is dead,
divorced, or has deserted wishes to develop a friendship with an
unrelated man, she must consider a series of dufficult personal
decisions which are completely unknown by other citizens.) This pattern,
common to other states, in addition to Arkansas and Georgia, will be
“attacked in a press conference Monday morning, January 3lst in the
- Congressional Room of the Hotel Willard at 10 AM in Washington, D. C.
by attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., and
attorneys from the Center on Social Welfare, Law and Policy, Columbia
* University, School of Social Work.
Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director
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NAACP Legal Defense & Ed. Fund, Inc.
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