LDF to File for Injunctive Relief against Rockefeller and McMorran on Behalf of Displaced Residents
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February 3, 1969

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Press Releases, Volume 5. LDF to File for Injunctive Relief against Rockefeller and McMorran on Behalf of Displaced Residents, 1969. f95cba46-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/d18c4498-0aea-4ee0-81a3-3d089222b16e/ldf-to-file-for-injunctive-relief-against-rockefeller-and-mcmorran-on-behalf-of-displaced-residents. Accessed July 20, 2025.
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Release - February 3, 1969 NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. (LDF) attorneys will appear in the U.S. District Court in New York City on Tuesday, Feb. 4, in a suit seeking injunctive relief against Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and J. Burch McMorran, Commissioner of the Department of Transportation. The LDF represents black, white, and Puerto Rican residents who are threatened with displacement from their homes by construction of the Hudson River Expressway. The attorneys argue that the expressway will displace over 400 households in the villages of Ossining and North Tarrytown. Although only approximately 10-12% of the populations of Ossining and North Tarrytown is black or Puerto Rican, over one-third of those displaced will be black or Puerto Rican. LDF attorneys further argue that the supply of decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the above-named communities is limited at the prices and rents affordable by the displaced residents. The LDF further states that displacement of the poor without adequate relocation denies the constitutional rights to Due Process and Equal Protection. LDF attorneys ask the Court to enjoin construction of the Hudson River Expressway and its access routes. -30- Released to Leslie Oelsner, Asst. Ed., N.Y.TIMES Pay |