Memorandum Announcing Institute on the Uses of Law in Combatting Racism and Poverty

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May 14, 1968

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Press Releases, Volume 5. Memorandum Announcing Institute on the Uses of Law in Combatting Racism and Poverty, 1968. f2c413a2-b892-ee11-be37-6045bddb811f. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/d44e0824-ab5a-42eb-9944-0376eae28f1d/memorandum-announcing-institute-on-the-uses-of-law-in-combatting-racism-and-poverty. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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    President 
Hon. Francis E. Rivers 

PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel 
Jack Greenberg 

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. » Fee naVece Je. 

10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 coer Numan 212-749-6487 

May 14, 1968 

MEMORANDUM pee el 

TO: METROPOLITAN NEWS EDITORS 

FROM: Jesse DeVore and Barbara Fishman, Dept. of Public Information 

An Institute on the Uses of Law in Combatting Racism and Poverty 

--a pre-summer orientation--will be held Friday, May 17, at the Hotel 

Americana, 7th Avenue and 52nd Street, from 10:00 a-m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Please see the enclosed folder for details. 

There will be three specific occasions for hard news plus a 

series of roundtable discussions of urban problems by some of the 

nation's leading attorneys. 

The news events are: 

Thursday, May 16, 1:00 p.m., skyline Parlor, Room 4431, 

Hotel Americana. LDF Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg will 

give year's wrap-up of nationwide work of LDF. Release of 

annual report will highlight work of recently established 

National Office for the Rights of the Indigent; steps to 

halt evictions in 2,045 public housing projects; fight 

against urban "Negro removal;" steps to end exploitation 

by door-to-door salesmen; also, progress reports in the 

fight for equal education, voting rights, and employment 

will be cited. 

Friday, May 17, 11:00 a.m., Skyline Parlor, Hotel Americana. 

LDF Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg will introduce attorney 

Reuben Anderson, youthful director of LDF's legal program 

in Mississippi and first Negro graduate of Ole Miss Law 

School. Mr. Greenberg will outline steps LDF is taking 

nationally to fill the crucial need for Negro attorneys, 

particularly in the South. He will reveal that a mere 700 

of the nation's 65,000 law students are Negro. 

Friday, May 17, 12:30 p.m. Imperial "A" Ballroom, Hotel 

Americana. Mayor Richard G. Hatcher of Gary, Indiana will 

speak on "The Crisis of Our Cities."

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