Correspondence from Lani Guinier to District Judge Re: Wilder v. Lambert

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a "LEGAL Werense anp EDUCATIONAL FUNn, INC. 

10 Columbus Circle, New York 15, N. Y. 

JUDSON 6-8397 

ALLAN-KNIGHT CHALMERS JACK GREENBERG CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY 
Presiden: Director-Counsel Associate Counsel 

July 22, 1964 

MEMORANDUM 

TO: VISITING EDITORS 

FROM: Jesse DeVore, Director 
Public Information 

We have prepared an over-all release and a listing of 
our guests for your convenience. Most of our guests are staying 
at the Alden Hotel, 225 Central Park West. 

Ed Bagwell, a very fine free-lance photographer, is working 
with us today and is available to accomodate any photographic 
request you might care to make. He will have his first set of 
contacts by five o'clock so that, should you have some specific 

3 feature you want, you might be well advised to get to him early 
in the day (perhaps at the luncheon) and amange the set-up. 

His work is being underwritten by the Legal Defense Fund 
as a public information service. His local telephone number is: 
MO 3 - 5226. 

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PRESS 

x PURPOSE: The following explanation is designed to assist you, 
" and your editors, to understand the difference between 

the NAACP and the Legal Defense Fund. 

5 The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., 
was founded in 1939 by a group of distinguished members of the 
Board of the N.A.A.C.P. to carry on the legal program which it 
originated near the turn of the century. It separated the legal 
program from the Association's lobbying and propaganda work so 
that contributions made to the Legal Defense Fund would be tax 
exempt. Moreover, it was felt that the legal program would 
benefit by focus in a separate operation apart from the pressures 
of organizational work. 

Since then, the Fund has continued in its dedica- 
tion to the N.,A.A.C.P.'s goal and continues to work closely with 

1 the Association. But as the civil rights revolution has spread, 
] the Fund also has represented members and officers of newer 

organizations. Among them have been Martin Luther King, Jr., 

&- Contributions are deductible for U. S. Income Tax Purposes 



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MEMORANDUM —— July 22, 1964 
to Visiting Editors 

James Farmer, James Forman, Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy, 
and other officers and members of SCLC, CORE and SNCC. Moreover, 
many persons represented by the Fund are members of ad hoc organi- 
zations like the Albany Movement, or of no organization at all. 
The only requirement that the Fund has for handling a case is 
that the litigant have a bona fide civil rights claim. The 
Board of Directors, staff, and budget of the Fund are independent 
of those of any other civil rights group.