Greenberg Statement on Expansion of Community Education Project

    Today we announce the formation and expansion of a three-year 

community education project to be carried out by our Division of 

Legal Information and Community Service. 

Expansion of this project into a full-scale program has been made 

possible by a grant of $300,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation, This 

will greatly increase LDF's budget in this area. 

The new program has been developed by this office during the last 

two years. The focus will be on attacking patterns of discrimination 

through a combination of: 

1) educational and community action projects centered around 

federal programs, especially those of enforcement agencies 

such as OFCC, EEOC, Title VI compliance programs, etc; 

2) the coordination of community action with legal efforts: where 

maximum gains can be made in the abolishing of patterns of 

discrimination; 

3) the identification of gaps or inequities in government programs 

in which minority groups and the poor are inadequately parti- 

cipating. 2 

The Division of Legal Information and Community Service, 

like the LDF, will work with members of all civil rights groups as 

well as local ad hoc groups which seek civil rights objectives. 

During the past two years the LDF has developed a number of 

community projects in education, welfare, and employment in Deep South 

states, Our purpose has been to inform Negro citizens of their rights 

and to assist them in meaningful numbers to obtain the equality of 

treatment available to them as a result of recent court orders and 

civil rights legislation, promising equality in 

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information about denial of ri s out of the community up to government 

The new Division will be developed in close cooperation with the 

LDF legal program and with the National Office for the Rights of the 

Indigent, which the LDF established earlier this year with a Ford 

Foundation grant of $1,000,000. 

The director of the Division of Legal Information and Community 

Service will be Miss Jean Fairfax, who formerly held the position of 

National Representative for Southern Program with the American Friends 

Service Committee. Miss Fairfax took a leave of absence from AFSC to 

as resigned from AFSC in order to direct this three-year project. 

begin the pioneering work that made this new program. possible. She 

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The new Division will consist of a director, associate director, 

three regional directors, and a clerical staff. They will work with 

consultants e izing in education, welfare, employment, and special 

problems of the American Indians and Spanish-speaking Americans. They 

will counsel the Division, identify special needs and opportunities 

The professional staff and the consultant staff will be assisted 

by community aic who will work in their home communities.