Conference on Protest Demonstrations Called by Legal Defense Fund

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May 31, 1963

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
TOCOLUMBUS CIRCLE + NEW YORK19,N.Y. © JUdson 6-8397 

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

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CONFERENCE ON PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS 
BY LEGAL DEFENSE FUND May 31, 1963 

WASHINGTON -- This weekend for the first time in a single mecting the 

NAACP Legal Defense Fund and its 80 cooperating southern attorneys 

will meet with representatives of all the principal direct action 

organizations to outline the legal contours of the protest against 

segregation in months to come. 

The meeting was called by Jack Greenberg, Director-Counsel of the 

Legal Defense Fund, It will be held June lst and 2nd at the Howard 

University School of Law. Special emphasis will be given the Supreme 

Court's sit-in decisions, and what protest demonstrations can do 

within their limits. 

Mr, Greenberg stated, "We will try to project the extent to which 

demonstrations will develop in months and years to come and to advise 

protest demonstrators what actions they may take which ultimately will 

be upheld by the courts. 

"The deczsions on wat to do and how to do it, however, will be 

entirely those of the organizations and their members, Our role will 

be instructional only. 

"Our lawyers will prepare and frame a course of action in the 

courts to enjoin the tyse of laws and practices which the courts just 

have held unconstitutional. We also are preparing a handbook of con- 

stitutional law setting forth the rights of the demonstrators. 

"We reiterate the pledge made by Thurgood Marshall when he was 

Director-Counsel, to defend every nonviolent demonstrator who requests 

our aid. The cases we handle now number more than 6,000 but we will 

continue to handle all such cases as long as our resources hold out 

and the public supports us."

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