LDF to Enforce New Rights Law

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Statement by Greenberg on the 1968 Fair Housing Act

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Press Releases, Volume 5. LDF to Enforce New Rights Law, 1968. f2202396-b892-ee11-be37-6045bddb811f. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/8c98320a-bfb9-44eb-bd36-5a6620daed43/ldf-to-enforce-new-rights-law. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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President

Hon. Francis E. Rivers
PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel egal efense und Jom Crsenbere

Director, Public Relations NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. Jonna DeVoce Je 10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397
NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487

April 11, 1968

LDF TO ENFORCE NEW 'RIGHTS LAW

Jack Greenberg, director-counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and

Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement

yesterday upon learning of the passage of the Civil Rights Act

of 1968 by Congress:

“The passage of the Fair Housing Act presents another opportunity for racial progress through law. Fair housing means not only a right to buy or rent a house but opportunities to attend schools and hold jobs now placed off limits by residential segregation.

"The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is ing immediate plans to enforce the new law in the courts. The bill has many procedural imperfections, but the LDF never- theless will do its best to make the Act meaningful.

"In coming weeks, we will conduct a series of conferences with our cooperating attorneys across
the nation to begin a legal program for enforcing
the new law.

“In this way, the LDF can reaffirm Dr. King's faith that peaceful change is possible,"

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NOTE: The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is a separate and distinct organization from the NAACP. Its correct designation is NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, inc., which is shortened to LDF.

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