Memo on Public Accommodations Case Filed in Supreme Court
Press Release
August 27, 1963
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Press Releases, Volume 1. Memo on Public Accommodations Case Filed in Supreme Court, 1963. 140bd684-b492-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/aa15e57e-b516-497a-a9a2-2f4357305645/memo-on-public-accommodations-case-filed-in-supreme-court. Accessed November 23, 2025.
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FROM: Jesse DeVore, Jr.
Director of Public Information
The attached release covers what should be
an historic case in the whole area of public accommodations,
It is filed on the eve of the March on Washington.
There are several unique factors in this
brief:
(1) The pin pointing of state responsibility in the
maze of arguments on private property rights,
etc.
(2) Assistance of four noted legal scholars in
preparing the brief, including Richard R. Powell,
leading authority on property.
(3) Citing of attitudes of 14 other nations.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc,
is now defending 7,500 demonstrators in 124 separate
actions.
This is the third year that the Legal Defense,
Fund, a separate corporation, has taken sit-in cases to
the Supreme Court.
** Editors note: For further information during non office
hours:
James Nabrit, III - RE 2-7129 (N.v.CR} +
Jesse DeVore, Ir. - SC 4-0697 (N.Y.@,
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