Preliminary Press Conference (White House Conference on Civil Rights)

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November 15, 1965

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Preliminary Press Conference re: Desegregation Pace in Southern Schools

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10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
JUdson 6-8397 

Legal Defense and Educational F und 
PRESS RELEASE 
President 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers November 15, 1965 

Director-Counsel 
Jack Greenberg 

MEMORANDUM 

HOS WASHINGTON, D. C. WORKING PRESS 

FROM: Jesse DeVore, Director of Public Information 

RE: Preliminary press conference (White House Conference on Civil 
Rights) 

Report and recommendations to HEW on current school 
desegregation picture; plus full use of Title VI. 

Sweeping proposals for speeding the pace of Scuthern school 

desegregation will be revealed Tuesday, November 16th at a press 

conference held jointiy by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 

Fund and the American Friends Service Committee. 

Spokesmen for the two groups will outline twenty proposals 

for more effective implementation of school desegregation mandates. 

The proposals are contained in a 50-page memorandum to John W. 

Gardner, secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. 

The press conference will be at 11 AM in the Congressional 

Room of the Hotel Willard, Washington, D. C. 

The Legal Defense Fund, the "legal arm"of the entire Civil 

Rights Movement, and AFSC, a religious organization that has not 

been specifically involved in Civil Rights, have combined to form 

the unique Task Force Open Schools. 

Based on the combined experience of the Legal Defense Fund in 

litigating school desegregation cases, and AFSC in promoting 

community action programs for school desegregation, the memorandum 

includes suggestions for eliminating evasion and tokenism in 

carrying out the mandates of the Civil Rights Act of: 1964 and court 

decisions requiring integration.' 

Jack Greenberg, Legal Defense Fund director-counsel; Miss 

Jean Fairfax, AFSC national representative for Southern programs, 

and Barbara Moffitt, AFSC Community Relations Secretar, will release 

a summary of the memorandum. 

For further information, contact Susan Eberly, Public Re- 

lations Assistant, American Friends Service Committee, Davis House, 

1822 R Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. CODE 202, ADams 2-3196, 

Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 Ss

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