Pageant Magazine Cities Constance Baker Motley
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January 11, 1964

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PRESS RELEASE 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 PAGEANT MAGAZINE CITES CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY January 11, 1964 NEW YORK---Pageant magazine this week cited Constance Baker Motley, associate counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, as the American to watch in the field of race relations in 1964. Mrs, Motley, attorney for James Meredith and a host of other historic civil rights cases, holds the number two administrative post at the Fund which represented 10,485 demonstrators in 1963. Among other distinguished citizens cited by Pageant are Dr. John P. Merrill, medicine, a leader in the field of kidney transplantation; Rev. Malcolm Boyd, religion, Espicopal Chaplain, Wayne State University. Also, Michael 0, Sullivan, theatre, star of the off-Broadway smash, "In White America." saps DEFENSE FUND LAWYERS OPEN N.ORLEANS CITY AUDITORIUM WASHINGTON---The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that New Orleans must allow Negroes to utilize its municipal auditorium. The victory was won by attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, A.P. Tureaud and Ernest Morial, both of New Orleans. Trouble arose when Horace C, Bynum of the local NAACP chapter attempted to secure the auditorium for a meeting, He was denied despite the fact that the White Citizens’ Councils had been permitted to use the facilities. fsa