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Impact area
- Political Participation
Topic
- Voting Rights
LDF Attorneys
Cooperating Attorneys
- Larry T. Menefee
- James U. Blacksher
Organizations
- LDF
- Blacksher, Menefee & Stein
Matter
- Dillard v. Crenshaw County
Case
- Dillard v. Crenshaw County
U.S. state
- Alabama
Collection
- Case Files
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- 36105aba-b7d8-ef11-a730-7c1e5247dfc0

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Press Releases, Volume 1. Links Officers to Attend Rights Seminar, 1964. 36fe8b16-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/4e1ac2fa-c5d2-486d-add2-609526866bf5/links-officers-to-attend-rights-seminar. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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    10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
JUdson 6-8397 

NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational F- ‘ind 
PRESS RELEASE 
President 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers 

Director-Co 
Jack 

July 20, 1964 

Associate Couns 
Conenes Baker Motley 

MEMORANDUM 

TO: FEATURE EDITORS 

FROM: Jesse DeVore, Director 
Public Information 

JU 6-8397 
Night Number - RI 9-8487 

[ We are holding an unprecedented one day briefing seminar for 
national officers of THE LINKS, INCORPORATED here in our New York 
City headquarters on Wednesday, July 22nd at 11:00 AM, 

The Links are perhaps the most prestigious and influential group 
of women within the national Negro community. The informal discus- 
sions with members of our legal staff will begin at 11:00 in the 
morning, break for a luncheon at the Nassau Suite B in the New York 
Statler Hilton and resume for about two hours in the afternoon. 

The purpose of this 
Links' leaders with our 
$75,000.00 contribution 

This is the largest 

orientation session is to acquaint the 
vast legal program, which their recent 

pledge will help support. 

contribution pledge the Legal Defense Fund 
has received from a woman's organization in our 25 year history. 
It also belies the accusation that Negroes are not making signifi- 
cant contributions to their own movement. 

We are inviting you to attend this seminar and observe the 
informal sessions, attend the luncheon and cover a press conference, 
at which we hope to make a substantive news announcement, 

Among the Links attending will be Mrs. Minnie Gaston (with her 
husband), whose motel in Birmingham, Ala. has served as the head- 
quarters of the freedom movement in that city, with the result that 
it and their home have been bombed several times. The last bombing 
took place on the same day they were guests of President and Mrs, 
Kennedy at the White House. 

Other Links guests will include: Mrs. Vivian J. Beamon, national 
president, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. Norvleate Downing, corresponding 
secretary, Newport News, Va.; Mrs, Elreta Alexander, Esq., Greensboro, 
N.C.; Mrs. Bessie Hill, eastern area chairman, Orange, N.J.; Dr. 
Anna Julian, vice-president, Oak Park, I1l1.; Mrs. Sarah S. Scott, 
co-founder, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mrs. Bernice Munce, youth services, 
Trenton, N.J.; Mrs. Pauline Weeden, past national president, 
Lynchburg, Va.; Mrs. Ruth McCants, Wilberforce, Ohio; and Mrs. 
Eula Trigg, coordinator of the Links-Legal Defense Fund Campaign, 
Washington, D.C, 

Each one of these women is an accomplished professional in her 
own field. We trust that you will find this feature material. 

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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487

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