Sol Bloom Family Foundation Donates $5,000 to Legal Defense Fund

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October 11, 1962

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
1O COLUMBUS CIRCLE © NEW YORK19,N.Y. © JUdson 6-8397 

DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS JACK GREENBERG CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY 
President Director-Counsel Associate Counsel 

B25 

FOR RELEASE: October 13, 1962 

SOL BLOOM FAMILY FOUNDATION 

DONATES $5,000 TO LEGAL DEFENSE FUND 
October 11, 1962 

NEW YORK -- The Sol Bloom Family Foundation of 275 Madison Avenue, 

today announced a $5,000 gift to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educa- 

tional Fund. 

The gift was made in conjunction with a letter from Nahum 

Bernstein, the Foundation attorney, to James H. Meredith, the first 

Negro student to attend the University of Mississippi. 

The letter praised Mr. Meredith's "lonely vindication of our 

heritage," and noted that it was accomplished "with intelligence, 

courage, integrity and a quiet dignity so rare in this day and age.” 

The letter added that Mr. Meredith merited the tangible support 

of "all decent Americans who are willing to demonstrate by deed that 

they understand that you are representing their interests." 

The $5,000 award was made to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund which 

fought Meredith's case through the courts for sixteen months. 

Congressman Sol Bloom, who died in 1949, was Chairman of the 

House Foreign Relations Committee during World War II. He was a 

United States signatory to the United Nations Charter in San 

Francisco in 1945. He served as Congressman for the 20th New York 

District in Brooklyn for 26 years. 

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