Motley Law Scholarship Award Announced by Legal Defense Fun

Press Release
March 22, 1972

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
March 22, 1972 

MOTLEY LAW SCHOLARSHIP AWARD 

ANNOUNCED BY LEGAL DEFENSE FUND 

Miss Gwendolyn L. Jones of Norfolk, Virginia has been 

selected to receive the Constance Baker Motley Scholarship Award 

for the Study of Law for the 1971-72 school year, according to 

an announcement by Dr. John W. Davis, director of the Department 

of Education of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 

Inc. The annual award of $1,200 was established in 1967 by 

Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the Legal Defense Fund, in 

honor of Judge Motley of.the United States District Court for 

the Southern District of New York. A former president of the 

Borough of Manhattan in New York City, Mrs. Motley served for 

Many years as an attorney and associate counsel with LDF, 

Miss Jones was an honor student at Booker T. Washington 

High School in Norfolk, and graduated Cum Laude from Hampton 

Institute. In September of 1969 she entered the Law School of 

the University of Virginia, from which she expects to receive a 

law degree in June, 1972. Her extra curricular activities have 

included work with the Law School Scholarship Committee, the Law 

Student Civil Rights Research Council, the Law Council Admission 

Committee and services as vice-president of the Student Government. 

Miss Jones has also been a Legal Aide, and served an internship 

with the firm of Hill, Tucker and Marsh in Richmond, Virginia. 

Previous recipients of the Constance Baker Motley Awards 

were: Miss Pernila J. Stimley of Jackson, Mississipi (1970-71), 

who attended Harvard University; Miss Dorothy Graham of Memphis, 

Tennessee (1969-70), who studied at New York University; Miss 

Sara B. Rearden of Edgefield, South Carolina (1968-69), who 

attended Howard University; and Miss Gammiel B. Gray of Baton 

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Rouge, Louisiana (1967-68), who completed her studies at 

Louisiana State University. 

For further information contact: Dr. John W. Davis or 
Ed Gant at 586-8397 

NOTE: Please bear in mind that the LDF is a completely separate 
and distinct organization even though we were established 
by the NAACP and those initials are retained in our name. 
Our correct designation is NAACP Legal Defense and 
Educational Fund, Inc., frequently shortened to LDF.

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