Additional $75,000 Given to Train Rights Lawyers

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Field Foundation Gives $75,000 for Legal Intern Program

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND
TOCOLUMBUS CIRCLE + NEWYORK19,N.Y. © JUdson 6-8397
DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS JACK GREENBERG CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY President Director-Counsel Associate Counsel

ADDITIONAL $75,000 GIVEN
TO TRAIN RIGHTS LAWYERS

November 30, 1963

NEW YORK---The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund this week re-

ceived a commitment for $75,000.00 from the Field Foundation in con-

tinued support of its Legal Intern Program,

Announcement was made by Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of

the Legal Defense Fund following communication with Maxwell Hahn, vice

president of the Field Foundation, long time supporter of the civil

rights struggle.

Mr. Greenberg announced the unprecedented Legal Intern Program

in August of this year. The Field Foundation granted the initial

$25,000.00 with which the Intern Program was started,

Julius LeVonne Chambers, honor graduate of the University of

North Carolina Law School was the first intern.

He has been joined by others who are and will be working under

supervision of the Legal Defense Fund staff in carrying out the full

responsibilities of a civil rights attorney. .

Mr, Greenberg pointed out that there is a dire need for civil

rights attorneys in deep south states, The Legal Interns, after

apprenticeship in the Fund's New York City headquarters, will set up

practice in the south and assist in civil rights cases,

The Legal Defense Fund has expanded from staff of five New York

based lawyers in 1961 to nine in 1962 to twelve at present. Plans call

for 17 by the beginning of 1964,

These lawyers work with the Fund's 100 fooperating attorneys

across the south, all under direction of Mr. Greenberg, and Constance

Baker Motley, associate counsel,

This legal battery is presently representing close to 8,000 per-

sons in more than 130 civil rights actions --- nearly 95 per cent of

the South's civil rights litigation,

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