Defense Fund's Greenberg Among 1965 NNPA Honorees

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March 13, 1965

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  • Press Releases, Volume 2. Defense Fund's Greenberg Among 1965 NNPA Honorees, 1965. 93b5eac1-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/adff53b1-12a9-4e90-ab4e-72dc2d1667f9/defense-funds-greenberg-among-1965-nnpa-honorees. Accessed July 13, 2025.

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NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 
President FOR RELEASE Saturday, 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers March 13, 1965 

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NEW YORK---Attesting to his mounting popularity, as a civil rights 

leader, NAACP Legal Defense Fund Direstoseceunsel Jaek: Greenberg has 

been chosen to receive the John B, Russwurm Award given by the 

National Newspaper Publishers Association, 

This highest NNPA citation is conferred’ on persons who have 

contributed to the "preservation of the democratic ideal." 

ing segregation, discrimination and the denial of equal py 

-of the law," Mr. Greenberg received the award March 13 at, pes... 

in the New Terrace Club, at the New York World's Fair. ae 

The announcement was made by Frank L. Stanley, eae of the 

aes 25 year old association which draws its membership fro 169 news- 

papers owned and operated by Negroes. 

Others receiving the award, named after America's irst Negro 

Newspaper publisher, are: President Lyndon B. Johnson, the % 

n Mississ ippi-- © families of the three civil rights workers sia 

Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, Michael Schweenez--Whitney Young, 

_ Urban League, and James Farmer, CORE. é 

In another development, Martin Re geiness ee eeident of ie gar 

bi, State College, announced that Mr. ee will be honored ay that 
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institution. & is 

"The Board of Trustees," aoe wrote, "has voted to awa:- 

you an honorary doctoral degree recognition of your outstanding 

achievements." Fg 

This degree will be awarded June 7th at Morgan's annual 

commencement ceremony. pe 

Three short years ago and état tery unknown, Mr. Greenberg, 

the man who “worships the law", succeeded Thurgood Marshall, as 

Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. ( ) 
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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 9 



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SNCC, the NAACP cm $ With bona fide civil rights cases. 

Perhaps, the wa er enberg carefully avoided sensationalism ee 

led to so much conf#ee so early in his role as a leader. 

An article that accompanied the results of the EBONY poll 

stated: "Greenberg was threatened by a white man in a Birmingham 

courthouse corridor. 'I walked away from him and lost myself in the 

crowd,’ Mr. Greenberg said. ‘Our job is not to go South and create 

sensational news. Our job is to win court cases,'" 

This is exactly what Director-Counsel Greenberg has done. He 

has lead the NAACP Legal Defense Fund staff to near perfect record 

of victories in the higher courts. 

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