Greenberg Statement on Expansion of Community Education Project
Press Release
June 6, 1967

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Press Releases, Volume 4. Greenberg Statement on Expansion of Community Education Project, 1967. 82e51dea-b792-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/8667bbf8-e5e5-4804-b40b-165e228abc3f/greenberg-statement-on-expansion-of-community-education-project. Accessed June 17, 2025.
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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 but lagging in fulfillment. ype of program arises out of Our special compe fact that in every case we aling with 1 process. Our community woz soci Legal counsel is a ole, on have been guaranteed to wh : ; have enied so that we may inform govern- ment. Thus, a two flow has been developed. The program has infused information about rights into the community and has taken 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 h 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.