Teachers Association Gives $5,000 to Education Cases

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
107 WEST 43 STREET *© NEW YORK 36, N. Y. 
ARTHUR B, SPINGARN 
President 

WALTER WHITE 
Secretory 

ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS 
Treasurer 

JUdson 6-8397 
THURGOOD MARSHALL 
Director and Counsel 

ROBERT L. CARTER 
Assistant Counsel 

ARNOLD DE MILLE 
Press Relations 

August 6, 1953 

TEACHERS ASSOCIATION GIVES 
$5,000 TO EDUCATION CASES August 6, 1953 

ORANGEBURG, S.C.; Aug. 6.-- A contribution of $5,000 was made 

to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund by the American Teachers 

Association at its 50th annual convention here last week to aid in the 

emergency expenses of the re-argument of the public school segregation 

cases in the United States Supreme Court next December 7. 

The gift represents an extra contribution of $3,400, since the 

ATA gives the Legal Defense Fund each year about $1,600 on a membership 

percentage basis. The regular contributions began in 1938-39 and the 

total amount contributed by the teachers association for the fifteen- 

year period is now $16,690.10. 

In announcing the gift which was presented to NAACP attorney 

Spottswood W. Robinson, III, Dr. H. Council Trenholm, executive secre-—- 

tary of the ATA, said: 

"As a result of a special appeal made to the Board of Trustees 

by Mr. C.L. Harper, there was the decision to inorease the contribution 

this year to $5,000, This additional contribution became possible 

through some budget adjustments which we are happy to make at this time 

for this year and which thus means that we are signalizing this 50th 

ATA convention with a contribution which in reality represents $100 

for each of the fifty conventions ATA has held." 

Expressing his deep thanks on behalf of the Legal Defense Fund, 

Thurgood Marshall, director, wrote Dr. Trenholm that the ATA contribu- 

tion was "most heartening," saying "it answers the unjust criticisms 

of our Negro teachers who are so often the victims of propaganda to 

the effect that they are only interested in themselves and not in the 

welfare of their people. You and the other officers of the American 

Teachers Association have set the pace with regular contributions over 

a long period of years." 

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