Jack Greenberg Calls Lawyers Conference on Protest Demonstrations
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PRESS RELEASE 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. wee-0---=