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NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 
President 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers July 22, 1964 
Director-Counsel 

ack Greenberg 
Associate Counsel 
Constance Baker Motley 

TOP LINKS ATTEND ‘RIGHTS 
SEMINAR IN NEW YORK CITY 

Pledge $75,000.00 to NAACP Legal Defense Fund 

NEW YORK, N.Y.--An all day briefing seminar on the legal phase 

of the civil rights movement was held here today at NAACP 

Legal Defense Fund headquarters for 13 key national officers 

of the Links, Inc. 

The sessions, conducted by legal experts on the Fund's 

staff, were designed to give top leaders of the Links first 

hand knowledge of the Fund's program. 

Links delegates, at the noted civic group's recent Nassau 

convention, voted a $75,000.00 contribution over a three year 

period to underwrite the work of the Legal Defense Fund. 

The Fund, which serves as the legal arm of the entire 

civil rights movement, last year took 30 cases to the Supreme 

Court; defended more than 11,000 demonstrators; and argued 

168 separate groups of legal actions in 15 states, 

These ran the gamut of schools, medical services, public 

facilities, recreation, employment and housing. 

Founded by the NAACP in 1939, the Fund now functions in- 

dependently of any civil rights organization, although it still 

maintains close association with the NAACP, 

Its attorneys defend Martin Luther King and his associates, 

members of CORE, SNICK, the NAACP and others seeking civil 

rights. 

Mrs. Vivian J. Beamon, Cincinnati, Ohio, national presi- 

dent of the Links, announced appointment of Mrs. Eula Trigg 

of Washington, D.C. as coordinator of the campaign, 

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Top Links Attend 'Rights 2+ July 22, 1964 
Seminar in New York City 

This project has been named the Links, Inc. Fund for 

Legal Defense and Education. 

The seminar was called by Jack Greenberg, director-counsel 

and Constance Baker Motley, associate counsel of the Fund, 

It was coordinated by Dr. John W. Davis, director, teacher 

information and security, who will serve as liaison between 

the Links and the Legal Defense Fund. 

The seminar was greeted by Director-Counsel Greenberg. Dr. 

Davis, who served as chairman, introduced Gustav Heningburg, 

assistant to the president, who lectured on public relations 

facets of the movement. 

Assistant Counsel Frank Heffron outlined the Fund's drive 

against the death perslty for rape, since southern states 

almost exclusively reserve this fate for Negroes. 

Michael Meltsner, assistant counsel, described the Fund's 

Campaign to end disczimination in 2,000 hospitals and medical 

facilities throughout the south. 

Tne Fund has already won a major Supreme Court victory in 

this area and is pressing the drive. 

Assistant Ccunsei Norman Amaker discussed workings of the 

Civil Rights Act of 1954. Mr. Amaker recently authored an 

article on the ssme subject for the Nation magezine. 

Miss Marian Weigut, one of the Fund's first legal interns, 

reported on the M:ss*3cippi Freedom Summer project, which is 

being backed by Fund attorneys. 

Miss Inez Smith, on leave from the Fund's staff, also 

participated. Miss Smith is currently tezching criminal law 

at the National College of Law and Administration, Leopoldville, 

the Congo, Central Africa. 

Mrs. Motley addressed a small luncheon in the Nassau Suite 

of the New York Hilton at Rockefeller Center, in which she out- 

linec new legal methods employed by Fund attorneys under the 

new civil rights act. 

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