Jack Greenberg Calls Lawyers Conference on Protest Demonstrations

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
TO COLUMBUS CIRCLE + NEWYORK19,N.Y. © JUdson 6-8397 

DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS JACK GREENBERG CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY 
President General Counsel Associate Counsel 

Ss 

FOR_ IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

JACK GREENBERG CALLS LAWYERS 
CONFERENCE ON PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS 

NEW YORK, Nov. 10--Jack Greenberg, General Counsel of the NAACP Legal 

Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., announced today that a working 

lawyers conference will be held in Washington, D. C., Nov. 17-19, for 

the purpose of exchanging ideas and legal theories on the defense of 

protest demonstrations such as Freedom Rides and sit-ins. 

Mr. Greenberg said all lawyers who are now involved in this type 

of litigation, including those from fourteen southern and border 

states, have been invited to participate. The entire legal staff of 

the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, along with Dean Spottswood Rebinson of 

the Howard University Law School, and Professor Louis L, Pollak of the 

Yale Law School will attend. 

Legal briefs and papers on the law involved in protest demonstra- 

tions will be distributed to the participants prior to the meeting. 

The sessions to be held at the Howard University Law School, will be 

epen only to the lawyers invited, 

Mr. Greenberg stated that he expects a coordinated plan of legal 

action to emerge from this meeting. Ideas and suggestions will be 

solicited from all the participants. 

Legal Defense Fund attorneys began this month the defense of more 

than 250 Freedom Riders who have been arrested in Jackson, Miss. since 

the Rides began in May, 1961, The Fund, Mr. Greenberg pointed out, is 

ting legally and financially the defense of approximately 

2,000 Negro students arrested in sit-in demonstrations. 

Me. Greenberg made it clear that the entire resources of the 

NAACP iegal Defense Fund will continue to be placed behind lawyers 

defending those arrested in such non-violent demonstrations. 

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