CBS Inc. Awards $50,000 to Support Earl Warren Legal Training Program

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June 15, 1976

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Press Releases, Volume 6. CBS Inc. Awards $50,000 to Support Earl Warren Legal Training Program, 1976. edd2a838-bb92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/bee88f31-8d44-48bd-9142-d69a06726857/cbs-inc-awards-50-000-to-support-earl-warren-legal-training-program. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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NORMAN BLOOMFIELD 

June 15,1976 

The attacked release was cleared with Leonard 

Spinrad, vep+ for corporate affairs at CBS Inc. on 

June 14. 

On June 14, it was mailed to 126 black press and 

10 other publications - and delivered to Variety+ 

On June 15, PR Newswire distributed to Eastern 

Seaboard at 9300 A.M. Copies were also delivered 

by hand to 22 trade press, business publications, 

wire services, metropolitan dailies and a couple 

correspondents» 

A 

NAAGP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. 

Suite 2030 © 10 Columbus Circle, New York, New York 10019 



ducational Fund, Inc. 

[MMEDIATE RELEASE 

NEW YORK, N.Y., June 15 - CBS Inc. has awarded $50,000 in 

support of the general scholarship and fellowship programs of the 

Earl Warren Legal Training Program, an educational 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, it was announced today by 

Jack Greenberg, the Fund's director-counsel. 

The grant will be used to provide ancial aid for students 

chosen as Earl Warren Scholars and to help provide fellowships for top- 

ranking black law school graduates who will receive additional training 

in civil rights law from the Legal Defense Fund. 

In accepting the grant on beha of the Warren Program, 

Mr. Greenberg noted, "The CBS grant will help increase the number of 

black lawyers serving the interests of the black community." 

Since its inception six years ago, the Earl Warren Legal Training 

Program has awarded three-year scholarships to nearly 700 black law 

students, and four-year training and support grants to 56 fellows. Last 

year, selecting from among more than 2,500 applicants, the Warren Program 

awarded 243 scholarships to black students attending 53 law schools. 

Or e-third of these were black women. 

Commenting on the growth and eff of the program, 

Greenberg said, "We initiated this undertaking to encourage blacks 

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w or no black to ent r law schools and practice where there 

lawyers serving t 

former fellows associat: 

s Julius LeVonne Chambers, 

of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; and the vice president is Louis H. 

Pollak, resident scholar and acting dean of the University of Pennsylvania 

School of Law.

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