Compromise and Settlement Agreement with Talladega County Defendants Regarding Fees and Expenses; Judgement and Order Approving Pro Tanto Settlement Re Talladega County
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December 30, 1986

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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 August 19, 2025.
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101 10 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," “230= 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.