Special Guests Honored by Legal Defense Fund

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Plaintiffs in 1954 Supreme Ct. Education Case Honored at Convocation in NYC

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Press Releases, Volume 1. Special Guests Honored by Legal Defense Fund, 1964. 0be140e6-b492-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/845f46ce-98da-415d-a1d8-6e55a2590e6e/special-guests-honored-by-legal-defense-fund. Accessed October 12, 2025.

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New York, N.Y. 10019 ‘s 
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NAACP tee 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 
President 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers 
Director-Counsel 

Jack Greenberg 
Associate Counsel 

Constance Baker Motley 
June 5, 1964 

SPECIAL GUESTS HONOPFD 
BY LEGAL DEFENSE FUND 

NEW YORK, N.Y.--The name plaintiffs in the historic 1954 Supreme 

Court integration decision were among the special guests hailed here 

last week at the 25th anniversary Convocation of the NAACP Legal 

Defense and Educational Fund. 

At the meetings, which celebrated the 1954 ruling as well as the 

1939 founding of the Defense Fund as a separate organization, the 

five students were applauded for their role in breaking the barrier 

of Jim Crow. 

The were Mrs. Linda Brown Smith of Topeka, Kan., whose name the 

famed ruling bears; Mrs. Ethel Belton Brown of Wilmington, Del.; 

Mrs. Dorothy Davis Bost of Prince Edward County, Va.; Spottswood 

Bolling, Jr. of Washington, D.C.; and Harry Briggs, Jr. of Clarendon 

County, S.C, 

Also feted at the two-day Convocation were leaders of the civil 

rights struggle in Mississippi, Dr. Aaron Henry, president of the 

State Conference of the NAACP and Charles Evers, brother of martyred 

Mississippi NAACP Field Secretary Medger Evers, who is carrying on 

his brother's work. 

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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 So (=

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