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December 29, 1964

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Press Releases, Loose Pages. Attorneys ask Alabama Supreme Court for stay of Jail Sentences for Negro Leaders in Birmingham, 1963. 63aa673c-bd92-ee11-be37-6045bddb811f. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/c6ef82f6-5fd9-47de-b00f-03b307bdb49f/attorneys-ask-alabama-supreme-court-for-stay-of-jail-sentences-for-negro-leaders-in-birmingham. Accessed August 19, 2025.
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PRESS RELEASE @ @ NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 1OCOLUMBUS CIRCLE + NEW YORK19,N.Y. © JUdson 6-8397 DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS JACK GREENBERG President CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY Director-Counsel Associate Counsel os ATTORNEYS ASK ALABAMA SUPREME COURT FOR STAY OF JAIL SENTENCES FOR NEGRO LEADERS IN BIRMINGHAM May 15, 1963 NEW YORK -- NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys Arthur D. Shores and Norman Amaker asked the Supreme Court of Alabama today to stay the sentences, issued April 26th by a Birmingham Circuit Court, of Dr. Martin Luther King and ten of his aides. An appeal was filed Monday with the Alabama high court. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference officials are scheduled to begin serving five day jail terms tomorrow. They were also fined $50 each. They were convicted of criminal contempt by Judge W, A, Jenkins for violating his injunction against anti-segre- gation demonstrations which was issued April 10th. The injunction prohibited unlawful picketing, parading and other forms of demonstrat- ing. SCLC officials who face sentence, in addition to Dr. King, are Ralph Abernathy, F. L. Shuttlesworth, Wyatt T. Walker, Andrew Young, James Bevel, T. L. Fisher, J. W. Hayes, A. D. King, John T, Porter and Nelson H, Smith, Jr. The brief filed by Legal Defense Fund attorneys argues, among other things, that the “injunction [of April 10th] is void as a denial of due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitu- tion of the United States." Fund attorneys are representing all of the more than 2,000 Negro citizens who have been convicted in Birmingham for demonstrations dur- ing the last month. The attorneys are Arthur D. Shores and Orzell Billingsley, Jr. of Birmingham, and Norman C, Amaker, Leroy Clark, Jack Greenberg and Mrs. Constance Baker Motley of New York City. HHH