Memorandum on Proper Identification of Jack Greenberg and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

    President 
Hon. Francis E. Rivers 

PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel 
egal fonse nd Jack Greenberg 

Director, Public Relations NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. Tous DaVors, fe 
10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 night NuMBER 212-749-8487 

WEDNESDAY 
December 14, 1966 

MEMORANDUM 

TO: Atlanta Reporters 

RE: Proper identification of Jack Greenberg and the NAACP Legal 
Defense and Educational Fund, Inc, (LDF) 

PER: Jesse DeVore, Director of Public Information 

This memorandum is an attempt to head off a mistake frequently 
made by well-intentioned journalists. \e refer to the understandable 
confusion between the two organizations, the NAACP and the NAACP Legal 
Defense and Educational Fund{LDF), These are separate, distinct, and 
individual organizations. 

The LDF was established as an independent organization by the NAACP 
in 1939, The purpose was to raise tax-free monies for litigation and 
to remove the legal fight from routine organizational confinements. 

Since 1939 the LDF has grown and now serves as the legal arm of 
the entire civil rights movement. Today our attorneys represent all 
of the major civil rights groups and any individual with a bonafide 
civil rights claim. 

Our correct designation is the "NAACP Leqal Defense and Educationa’ 
Fund, Inc.," but since this is admittedly long, we shortened it to the 
“NAACP Legal Defense Fund" or to "LDF." : 

WHAT HAS THE LDF DONE? 

For the past 27 years the LDF has led the long struggle to secure 
full constitutional rights for every Negro through process of law. 
Hence, the LDF has been responsible for the major breakthroughs in the 
courts, breakthroughs which have paved the way for historic advances, 
including the 1954 decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawin: 
segregation in public schools. 

The Director-Counsel of the LDF is Jack Greenberg, successor to 
Thurgood Marshall, now Solicitor General of the United States, He 
heads a staff of 20 New York based lawyers who work with more than 200 
cooperating attorneys stationed across the country. This staff is 
currently handling more than 400 separate cases and representing more 
than 13,000 individuals, 

TODAY-THE LDF 4: 4, . 

* represents, through 177 lawsuits in 13 states, the interests of two 
million Negro children in the South still confined to inferior, 
segregated schools--the same poor-quality education that has made 
economic outcasts of their parents. 

* is suing for reinstatement of hundreds of Southern Negro teachers 
arbitrarily dismissed following partial school desegregation, The 
LDF has already won reinstatement for teachers in Arkansas, North 
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, 

* challenges disriminatory practices against Negro patients or physi- 
cians in federally financed hospitals. Negroes are often placed in 
hallways to make room for whites, relegated to antiquated facilities, 
abused by hospital personnel, 

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* represents Negroes denied jobs or promotion solely because of their 
race. Defendants are companies, trade unions, and employment agen- 
cies charged with violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 
1964, No attempt to enforce this law in the courts exists apart 
from suits filed by the LDF. 

defends members of civil rights organizations and unaffiliated 
individuals who have been unfairly arrested in peaceful and con- 
stitutional protest actions against segregation and discrimination, 
a total of more than 20,000 individuals in the past five years, 

LDF INCOME 

The income of the LDF is reflective of the organization's 
increased program in recent years. That budget in 1963 was $750,000; 
in 1964 $1,400,000; and in 1965 it was $1,716,000. The projected 
budget for 1966 is $2,000,000, Hence, the financial implications 
of the Ford grant of $1,000,000, which is allocated for use over a 
three-year period, can be clearly seen, 

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