Civil Rights Movement Loses Grenville Clark

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Press Releases, Volume 4. Civil Rights Movement Loses Grenville Clark, 1967. 2775778d-b792-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/9ffe70ea-b1c3-4a8f-a439-c4449a03fd14/civil-rights-movement-loses-grenville-clark. Accessed October 08, 2025.

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Hon. Francis E. Rivers

nN A) PRESS RELEASE —__piirecior-Counset
egal ‘efense und Jack Greenberg

Director, Public Relations NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. Jesse DeVore, Jr. 10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487
FOR RELEASE
WEDNESDAY

January 25, 1967

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
LOSES GRENVILLE CLARK

Gave $500,000.00 Anonymously to LDF

NEW YORK---Civil rights attorneys across the country this week mourned the passing of Grenville Clark, prominent New York lawyer and pioneer supporter of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc, (LDF).
He was 84,

"Because of his own modesty," said LDF President Francis E. Rivers, "one of Mr, Clark's most important contributions was kept from public view,

"He and Mrs, Clark were the anonymous donors of a half million dollars to the LDF, announced in May of 1964, to be distributed over a period of ten years," Judge Rivers added.

Newspaper accounts of the gift noted that it was the largest single contribution to a civil rights organization in history.

Jack Greenberg, LDF director-counsel, wired Mr. Clark's family this week saying, "The results of what he has done will strengthen our en- deavors for many years to come,"

As creator of the "Grenville Clark Plan--A Ten Year Program to Support the Struggle for Equal Justice for Negro Americans," Mr, Clark anonymously gave $10,000.00 yearly to the LDF from 1961 to 1965,

He then authorized $50,000.00 yearly contributions to the LDF to run for the years 1966 through 1975--$500,000.00.

Mr, Clark's generosity, however, went still further.

In a letter to former LDF President Allan Knight Chalmers, dated May 2, 1960, he called for "100 persons from all parts of the country to agree to subscribe not less than $1,000.00 each per annum for ten years beginning in 1961,"

He stressed that his plan would not cover all the money the LDF needed for that "would not be desirable, " Mr. Clark sought "a set of guaranteed subscriptions sufficiently large to provide a substantial nucleus and encouragement, "

Mr, Greenberg pointed out that Nir. Clark's plan had inspired an additional $150,000.00 duzing 1965,

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