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Press Releases, Volume 5. Memorandum Announcing Institute on the Uses of Law in Combatting Racism and Poverty, 1968. f2c413a2-b892-ee11-be37-6045bddb811f. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/d44e0824-ab5a-42eb-9944-0376eae28f1d/memorandum-announcing-institute-on-the-uses-of-law-in-combatting-racism-and-poverty. Accessed August 19, 2025.
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President Hon. Francis E. Rivers PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg egal efense lund Director, Pui lelations NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. » Fee naVece Je. 10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 coer Numan 212-749-6487 May 14, 1968 MEMORANDUM pee el TO: METROPOLITAN NEWS EDITORS FROM: Jesse DeVore and Barbara Fishman, Dept. of Public Information An Institute on the Uses of Law in Combatting Racism and Poverty --a pre-summer orientation--will be held Friday, May 17, at the Hotel Americana, 7th Avenue and 52nd Street, from 10:00 a-m. to 5:00 p.m. Please see the enclosed folder for details. There will be three specific occasions for hard news plus a series of roundtable discussions of urban problems by some of the nation's leading attorneys. The news events are: Thursday, May 16, 1:00 p.m., skyline Parlor, Room 4431, Hotel Americana. LDF Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg will give year's wrap-up of nationwide work of LDF. Release of annual report will highlight work of recently established National Office for the Rights of the Indigent; steps to halt evictions in 2,045 public housing projects; fight against urban "Negro removal;" steps to end exploitation by door-to-door salesmen; also, progress reports in the fight for equal education, voting rights, and employment will be cited. Friday, May 17, 11:00 a.m., Skyline Parlor, Hotel Americana. LDF Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg will introduce attorney Reuben Anderson, youthful director of LDF's legal program in Mississippi and first Negro graduate of Ole Miss Law School. Mr. Greenberg will outline steps LDF is taking nationally to fill the crucial need for Negro attorneys, particularly in the South. He will reveal that a mere 700 of the nation's 65,000 law students are Negro. Friday, May 17, 12:30 p.m. Imperial "A" Ballroom, Hotel Americana. Mayor Richard G. Hatcher of Gary, Indiana will speak on "The Crisis of Our Cities."