The attached release covers what should be a historic case in the whole area of public accommodations…

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August 27, 1963

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    N. A. A.C. P. Lean Derense AND EnucATionat Fun, Inc. 

10 Columbus Circle, New York 19, N. Y. 

JUDSON 6-8397 A “5, ie: 

TO: Editors 

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 fukther information during non office 
hours: 

James Nabrit, III - RE 2-7129 (N.¥.C.) 

Jesse DeVore, Jr. - SC 4-0697 (N.Y.C.) 

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