Memo from Napoleon Williams to Lani Guinier & others (cover memo without attachment
Correspondence
August 24, 1982

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Press Releases, Volume 3. Telegram re: "Substitute Policies" Program, 1966. 008dfbb3-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/7e69468b-e45e-49ba-9854-c40ba844d0c2/telegram-re-substitute-policies-program. Accessed August 19, 2025.
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DOMESTIC SERVICE tee’), WESTERN UNION (ess TELEGRAM = * INTERNATIONAL SERVICE sent asa fast tel WnCITILETTER Lx W. P. MARSHALL, paesioen? Pe *Fro.wos-o. oF sve, [po oR COLL. | TASH NO 1 CHARGE TO THE ACCOUN 7 £0 al | NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC, 10 Columbus-Circle,Suite 2030, MYC Send the following message, subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to (See.attached list) January 30, 1966 The "substitute parent" policies interfere with the rights and privacy - and free association of welfare(clients in a manner which frustrates -- both the purposes of the AFDC program and the protections of the Fourteenth Amendment. When a needy mother whose husband is dead, divorced, or has deserted wishes to develop a friendship with an unrelated man, she must consider a series of dufficult personal decisions which are completely unknown by other citizens.) This pattern, common to other states, in addition to Arkansas and Georgia, will be “attacked in a press conference Monday morning, January 3lst in the - Congressional Room of the Hotel Willard at 10 AM in Washington, D. C. by attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., and attorneys from the Center on Social Welfare, Law and Policy, Columbia * University, School of Social Work. Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director Public Information NAACP Legal Defense & Ed. Fund, Inc. 212 JU 6-897 8397