Motley Law Scholarship Award Announced by Legal Defense Fun

Press Release
March 22, 1972

Cite this item

Motley Law Scholarship Award Announced by Legal Defense Fun preview

Document text

The following text has been generated automatically during the document scanning process. It may contain errors, omissions, or incorrect formatting. Please refer to the PDF document if this text is not usable.

Download

By downloading, publishing, or reusing the Materials outside of the Website, you hereby confirm and attest that you have read and agree to the LDF Archival Collection Terms of Use linked below. We draw your attention to the following:

For those Materials owned by LDF, your use of the Material outside the Site is solely for one or more of the following (the “Permitted Purposes”):

Non-commercial research and private study;
Teaching, scholarship and instruction (including distance learning);
Non-commercial print and non-commercial online use;
Criticism, comment or news reporting; or
For people with visual disabilities (See Section 121 of the Copyright Act).
For those Materials not owned by LDF you understand that:
- It is your responsibility to determine whether the way you plan to use the materials falls within the copyright exception of Fair Use.
- For any use outside of Fair Use, it is your responsibility to seek and obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders.

LDF hereby grants you the right to use LDF owned Materials for the Permitted Purposes without seeking further permission from LDF.

If you publish or redistribute any Materials (including excerpts and quotes), you must include a credit line and/or proper citation to the source of the Material. However, you may not use the name of LDF in any manner which creates any false association between you and LDF or that incorrectly implies any sponsorship or endorsement of you by LDF.

NOTICE: Uses that do not comply with these Terms or that do not fall under Fair Use (or another exception) may make you liable for copyright infringement.

Read the full LDF Archival Collection Terms of Use Here.

I agree to the terms and conditions for use of this content.

If you would like to use this content in other ways, contact us at .

Collection
- Press Releases
Creator
- LDF
Taxonomy
Identifier
- aa6958d1-ba92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b

Cite this item

Press Releases, Volume 6. Motley Law Scholarship Award Announced by Legal Defense Fun, 1972. aa6958d1-ba92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/8c632724-a80b-46bf-8b9c-9ba62cb0c897/motley-law-scholarship-award-announced-by-legal-defense-fun. Accessed November 23, 2025.

Copied!

PressRelease B eae oa

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

(More)

NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. | 10 Columbus Circle | New York, N.Y. 10019 | (212) 586-8397

William T. Coleman, Jr. - President Jack Greenberg - Director-Counsel

Bia

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.

Copyright notice

This collection and the tools to navigate it (the “Collection”) are available to the public for general educational and research purposes, as well as to preserve and contextualize the history of the content and materials it contains (the “Materials”). Like other archival collections, such as those found in libraries, LDF owns the physical source Materials that have been digitized for the Collection; however, LDF does not own the underlying copyright or other rights in all items and there are limits on how you can use the Materials. By accessing and using the Material, you acknowledge your agreement to the Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Materials.

Additional info

To the extent that LDF includes information about the Materials’ origins or ownership or provides summaries or transcripts of original source Materials, LDF does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of such information, transcripts or summaries, and shall not be responsible for any inaccuracies.

Motley Law Scholarship Award Announced by Legal Defense Fun

Collection

Creator

Taxonomy

Identifier

Cite this item

Copyright notice

Additional info

You may also be interested in