Artur Rubinstein Benefit Concert to Aid NAACP Legal Defense Fund

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December 17, 1965

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    10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 

JUdson 6-8397 

NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 

oon Allan Knight Chalmers 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Friday, December 17, 1965 

Direeto sel 
Jack Greenberg 

ARTUR RUBINSTEIN BENEFIT CONCERT 
TO AID NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND 

NEW YORK--Celebrated concert pianist Artur Rubinstein will give 

a benefit performance at 8:30 p.m. Friday, January 22nd, at 

Carnegie Hall in behalf of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 

Fund. 

Mr. Rubinstein, in his fifth benefit performarce for the 

Legal Defense Fund, will play Brahms Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, with 

orchestra conducted by Alfred Wallenstein. 

According to Mrs. Arthur W. Murphy and Mrs. Hale A. Woodruff, 

co-chairmen of the 90-member benefit committee, the estimated 

$30,000 proceeds from the concert will be used to help meet the 

Legal Defense Fund budget, which was $1,716,000 in 1965. 

The Legal Defense Fund, often called the legal arm of the 

entire civil rights movement, is presently defending some 17,500 

individuals arrested during peaceful protest demonstrations 

against segregation and discrimination. 

Founded by the NAACP as a separate corporation in 1939, the 

Legal Defense Fund has handled an estimated 90 per cent of all 

court action to help Negroes gain equal rights in the South. 

With a staff of 17 full-time lawyers and 121 cooperating 

attorneys in various parts of the country, the Legal Defense Fund 

has represented Negro Americans in 61 cases before the U.S. Supreme 

Court in the past two years. 

Under the leadership of Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg, the 

Fund is presently launching broad scale programs to secure full 

enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

The volunteer benefit committee has raised more than a 

quarter of a million.dollars’ forthe Legal Defense Fund. 

Among subscribers to this year's benefit are Mrs. Herbert H. 
Lehman, Miss Dorothy Gordon, Dr. and Mrs. C.B. Powell, Walter 
Scheuer, Mrs. Max Lerner, Dr. Oma H. Price, Jacob Potofskyv, Mrs. 
Arthur F. Anderson, Mrs. Boris Sergievsky, Mrs. Katherine Evarts, 
Mrs. Max D. Steuer, Mrs. Henry B. Duncan and Morris Abren. 

Further information on benefit tickets may be obtained by 
calling Legal Defense.Fund headquarters, (212) JU 6-8397. 

-30- 

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

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