LDF to File for Injunctive Relief against Rockefeller and McMorran on Behalf of Displaced Residents

Press Release
February 3, 1969

LDF to File for Injunctive Relief against Rockefeller and McMorran on Behalf of Displaced Residents preview

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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. 

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Released to Leslie Oelsner, Asst. Ed., N.Y.TIMES 

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