Massive Turnout for the 30th Anniversary LDF Institute on Creative Use of Law

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May 24, 1969

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Press Releases, Volume 6. Massive Turnout for the 30th Anniversary LDF Institute on Creative Use of Law, 1969. 1928b57c-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/ef30a845-b723-4e55-b89f-e19838ac9afc/massive-turnout-for-the-30th-anniversary-ldf-institute-on-creative-use-of-law. Accessed October 31, 2025.

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FOR RELEASE 
SATURDAY 
May 24, 1969 

MASSIVE TURNOUT FOR 30TH 
ANNIVERSARY LDF INSTITUTE 
ON CREATIVE USE OF LAW 

Evers, Kennedy, Jackson, Greenberg Were Speakers 

NEW YORK--~Some 2,000 persons participated here last week in the 
seven workshops and two luncheon meetings that made up the Institute 
on the "Law As A Creative Force For Black Advance." 

The Institute was sponsored by the NAACP Legal Defense and 
Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). 

The most impressive turnout was for Charles Evers, newly elected 
Mayor of Fayette, Miss., who told the 1,200 guests at his luncheon 
that “voting is the way to wrest the power from bigoted and racist 
whites." 

Mr. Evers, crediting LDF attorneys with "keeping me out of jail 
many times," discussed "The Politics of the New South." 

Other nationally noted participants of the LDF's 30th anniver- 
sary Institute included U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Mass. 

Senator Kennedy, speaking on student dissent, concluded that 
“it is up to the universities themselves to reverse the trend. 
Government cannot do it for them. The universities must take two 
steps: 

* they must recognize that they have serious shortcomings, and 
they must initiate accelerated reforms; 

* they must provide an alternative route toward change besides 
the confrontation politics of the militants." 

LDF Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg told the Institute partici- 
pants that "the law offers a way of achieving meaningful social 
progress, but that goal can be attained only by vigorous application" 
on the part of LDF attorneys and other lawyers dedicated to improving 
the plights of the minorities and the poor. 

Samuel C. Jackson, assistant secretary, U.S. Department of 
Housing and Urban Development, urged white participants in the 
Institute, “who live or work in the suburbs, to use whatever 
influence you may have to help open up those areas to people of low 
or moderate incomes." 

The Institute, w ich also marked the 15th anniversary of the 
LDF victory in the 1954 Supreme Court school integration ruling, 
was co-chaired by John Doar, recent president of the New York City 
Board of Education, and the Reverend M. Moran Weston, LDF National 
Board member. 

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NOTE: We enclose the Institute program for further details.

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