Jones v. Alfred H Mayer Company Memorandum for the United States as Amicus Curiae
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October 2, 1967

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PRESS RELEASE @ r NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND TOCOLUMBUS CIRCLE + NEW YORK19,N.Y. © JUdson 6-8397 DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS JACK GREENBERG CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY President Director-Counsel Associate Counsel oe CONFERENCE ON PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS BY LEGAL DEFENSE FUND May 31, 1963 WASHINGTON -- This weekend for the first time in a single mecting the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and its 80 cooperating southern attorneys will meet with representatives of all the principal direct action organizations to outline the legal contours of the protest against segregation in months to come. The meeting was called by Jack Greenberg, Director-Counsel of the Legal Defense Fund, It will be held June lst and 2nd at the Howard University School of Law. Special emphasis will be given the Supreme Court's sit-in decisions, and what protest demonstrations can do within their limits. Mr, Greenberg stated, "We will try to project the extent to which demonstrations will develop in months and years to come and to advise protest demonstrators what actions they may take which ultimately will be upheld by the courts. "The deczsions on wat to do and how to do it, however, will be entirely those of the organizations and their members, Our role will be instructional only. "Our lawyers will prepare and frame a course of action in the courts to enjoin the tyse of laws and practices which the courts just have held unconstitutional. We also are preparing a handbook of con- stitutional law setting forth the rights of the demonstrators. "We reiterate the pledge made by Thurgood Marshall when he was Director-Counsel, to defend every nonviolent demonstrator who requests our aid. The cases we handle now number more than 6,000 but we will continue to handle all such cases as long as our resources hold out and the public supports us."