Sen. Lehman to Get NAACP Legal Defense Fund Philip Murray Award

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May 16, 1956

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
107 WEST 43 STREET © NEW YORK 36, N. Y. © JUdson 6-8397 

ARTHUR B. SPINGARN op THURGOOD MARSHALL 
President Director and Counsel 

ROY WILKINS ROBERT L. CARTER 
Secretary Assistant Counsel 

ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS, ARNOLD de MILLE 
Treesurer Press Relations 

FOR RELEASE: Wednesday, May 16, 
A.M. and P.M, papers 

SEN. LEHMAN TO GET NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND 
PHILIP MURRAY AWARD May 16, 1956 

NEW YORK., May 16.--Senator Herbert H, Lehman of New York has 

been chosen the first- recipient of the NAACP Legal Defense and 

Educational Fund, Inc., Philip Murray Award, it was announced today 

by Thurgood Marshall, Director-Counsel of the organization. 

The award was established last year in honor of the late 

president of the Congress of Industrial Orgmizations and made 

possible by a gift from the Philip Murray Foundation. It pays trib- 

ute to "an American who has contributed in great measures to the 

betterment of race relations in our country." The award consists of 

a scroll and {1,000 to be given to a charitable organization selected 

by the recipient. 

Presentation of the award to Senator Lehman will be made tomor- 

row night at the Waldorf Astoria at the second dinner given by the 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., in observance of the 

May 17, 1954, Supreme Court decision declaring racial segregation in 

public education uncons titutional. 

Principal speaker at the affair will be the Rev. Martin Luther 

King, Jr., leader of the Montgomery, Ala. protest movement. Roy 

Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the National Associatbn for the 

Advancement of Colored People, and Mr. Marshall will give accounts 

of progress made in the area of desegregation since the Supreme 

Court made its historic ruling. Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Under Secretary 

of the United Nations, is chairman of the dinner. 

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