William T. Coleman to Give Address at LDF Insitute

    From: Norman Bloomfield 
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. 10 Columbus Ciréle 
New York, New York 10019 

Phone: 212 - 586-8397 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EE ERELEASE 

NEW YORK, N.Y., May 4 - William T. Coleman, Jr., Secretary of 
Transportation, will address 1,200 civil rights advocates at a luncheon 
meeting to be held in connection with an all-day Institute sponsored by the 
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Howard University School of Law. 
The Institute meeting will be held here on May 14 at the Hotel Americana. 

Focusing on "The Black Lawyer and American Justice," the 
Institute will bring together the nation's leading black attorneys, as well as 
special guests who were plaintiffs in historic lawsuits and the first black 
students to be admitted to Southern law schools. 

Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the Legal Defense Fund, 
and Eleanor Holmes Norton, New York City's Human Rights Commissioner, also 
will speak at the luncheon, which will Pay special tribute to the late 
Judge William H. Hastie. 

The Institute has scheduled two morning panels which will review 
historic contributions of the black bar, and two afternoon sessions which will 
focus on current and developing civil rights trends. 

Among the participants will be jurists who argued the Brown v. 
Board of Education of Topeka cases which in 1954 outlawed segregation in 

cation of Topeka 

public schools. These include James M. Nabrit, Jr., president emeritus of 
Howard University and former dean of that University's Law School; Oliver w. 
Hill, the first black member of the City Council of Richmond, Va.; Louis Le 

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Redding of Wilmington, Del., who in 1950 won the first suit to desegregate 

an undergraduate state university; and Mr. Greenberg. 

Other panel members include civil rights attorney, Arthur D. 

Shores, who is president pro-tem, Birmingham City Council and Samuel W. Tucker 

of Richmond, Va., who has argued more than 30 civil rights cases in the U. S. 

Supreme Court. 

Charles T. Duncan, dean of Howard University School of Law, and 

Ossie Davis, actor-playwridit-producer, will narrate historical developments 

in the morning panels. Lewis E. Lehrman, president of Rite-Aid Corporation, 

will chair the luncheon meeting. 

Howard University's Law School has trained most of the nation's 

black lawyers. 

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is a completely 

separate organization, even though established by the NAACP in 1939. It has 

not been affiliated with the founding Association for more than 20 year. 

a national staff and headquarters in New York City and works with 400 

cooperating attorneys throughout the country. 

It has