Prominent Negroes Gather Here to Support Legal Defense Fund

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December 13, 1968

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Asa T. Spaulding Honored Guest Speaker at Fund Raising Campaign to Support LDF

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Press Releases, Volume 5. Prominent Negroes Gather Here to Support Legal Defense Fund, 1968. 8068ab34-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/9a95851d-80a3-4fc2-91b2-f29d5ad9a387/prominent-negroes-gather-here-to-support-legal-defense-fund. Accessed October 09, 2025.

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a 2 Hon. F: s E. Rivers

PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel egal efense lund
Jack Greenberg

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. Wh pat eater Jesse DeVore, Jr.
NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487

10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y, 10019 * JUdson 6-8397

IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE

December 13, 1968

PROMINENT NEGROES GATHER HERE

TO SUPPORT LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

Asa T. Spaulding Key Speaker And Honored Guest

TULSA, OKLAHOMA--Asa T. Spaulding, retired president of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., Durham, N. C., the nation's
largest Negro business, will be the key speaker and guest of
honor at a private dinner to be held here Wednesday, December 18th.

The dinner will be held at the Camelot Inn to initiate a state- wide camp@ign for raising $30,000 in support of the NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)

The occasion will be attended by prominent Negroes from through-
out the state.

LDF, now handling well over 500 civil rights, urban welfare
and rural poverty cases, is the legal arm for the entire civil
rights movement.

The fund raising campaign is being sponsored by the state Negro Business and Professional Committee (NNBPC) headed by Dr. R. B.
Taylor, a dentist from Okmulgee, Okla.

The NNBPC, of which Mr. Spaulding is one of two co-chairmen,
is a nation-wide organization of Negro business and professional
men and women who had pledged to raise One-million dollars an-
nually to support LDF. Its members have agreed to raise $1,000
apiece.

Dr. Taylor, a noted community leader, and his group to date
have raised $9,185, according to a recent LDF report.

Commenting on the state-wide campaign, Dr. Taylor said, "this
campaign to help those of our race who are locked within the
black ghettos and rural poverty pockets of America must be
supported by Negroes who are more fortunate."

Mr. Spaulding, now leads his own business consulting and
advisory service, and is an advisor for the Ford Foundation and
the General Electric Company.

Mr. Spaulding was recently elected commissioner of Durham
County.

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NOTE: Though the LDF was once a part of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) it now is a
Separate organization, even though the initials are retained
in its title.

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