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Press Releases, Loose Pages. Teachers Association Gives $5,000 to Education Cases, 1953. 5509add2-bb92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/86ebad57-1909-4c1c-b8bd-2e231e60c7d4/teachers-association-gives-5-000-to-education-cases. Accessed July 02, 2025.
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PRESS RELEASE NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 107 WEST 43 STREET *© NEW YORK 36, N. Y. ARTHUR B, SPINGARN President WALTER WHITE Secretory ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS Treasurer JUdson 6-8397 THURGOOD MARSHALL Director and Counsel ROBERT L. CARTER Assistant Counsel ARNOLD DE MILLE Press Relations August 6, 1953 TEACHERS ASSOCIATION GIVES $5,000 TO EDUCATION CASES August 6, 1953 ORANGEBURG, S.C.; Aug. 6.-- A contribution of $5,000 was made to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund by the American Teachers Association at its 50th annual convention here last week to aid in the emergency expenses of the re-argument of the public school segregation cases in the United States Supreme Court next December 7. The gift represents an extra contribution of $3,400, since the ATA gives the Legal Defense Fund each year about $1,600 on a membership percentage basis. The regular contributions began in 1938-39 and the total amount contributed by the teachers association for the fifteen- year period is now $16,690.10. In announcing the gift which was presented to NAACP attorney Spottswood W. Robinson, III, Dr. H. Council Trenholm, executive secre-—- tary of the ATA, said: "As a result of a special appeal made to the Board of Trustees by Mr. C.L. Harper, there was the decision to inorease the contribution this year to $5,000, This additional contribution became possible through some budget adjustments which we are happy to make at this time for this year and which thus means that we are signalizing this 50th ATA convention with a contribution which in reality represents $100 for each of the fifty conventions ATA has held." Expressing his deep thanks on behalf of the Legal Defense Fund, Thurgood Marshall, director, wrote Dr. Trenholm that the ATA contribu- tion was "most heartening," saying "it answers the unjust criticisms of our Negro teachers who are so often the victims of propaganda to the effect that they are only interested in themselves and not in the welfare of their people. You and the other officers of the American Teachers Association have set the pace with regular contributions over a long period of years." -30-