Letter from Adrian W. Dewind to Max Frankel

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Press Releases, Loose Pages. Letter from Adrian W. Dewind to Max Frankel, 1979. f52d47d2-bd92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/f2d0f6e4-0a28-4c78-ae07-4d046ba1937f/letter-from-adrian-w-dewind-to-max-frankel. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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    ADRIAN W. DEWIND 

345 PARK AVENUE 
NEW YORK.N, ¥ 10022 

January 16, 1979 
BY HAND 

Mr. Max Frankel 
Editor, Editorial Page 
The New York Times 
229 West 43rd Street 
New York, New York 

Dear Mr. Frankel: 

Yesterday morning's "Editorial Notebook", 
entitled "Remembering Martin Luther King", referred to 
the fading away of civil rights organizations. One 
organization not mentioned that has in no way faded is 
the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. LDF 
won the Supreme Court school segregation decisions 
twenty-five years ago, represented Dr. King in all his 
demonstrations, and today remains a vigorous effective 
force for civil rights under its present Director-Counsel 
Jack Greenberg (who succeeded now Supreme Court Justice 
Thurgood Marshall). 

LDF is counsel in hundreds of civil rights 
cases involving employment, schools, housing, prisoner 
rights and capital punishment, in which it should be 
noted it has been almost always successful. In the last 
ten years, its Earl Warren Legal Training Program has 
made it possible for over 700 black lawyers to get 
through law school. It celebrates its 40th anniversary 
this year and the 25th anniversary of its landmark 
victory in Brown v. Board of Education in full vigor 
and effectiveness. 

LDF (founded by the NAACP but now totally 
separated, with its own Board, staff, and budget) must 
struggle for annual funding. It ran a small deficit of 
$155,000 last year but with expenditures at a level of 
over $4,000,000 a year, it is a continuing robust, 
effective and vital force in the progress of civil rights. 

Very truly yours, 

/jja Adrian W. DeWind 

ree Mr. Malcolm Rucker 
Legal Defense Fund

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