Law Institute to Deal with Civil Rights Act Enforcement

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NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational F aha 
PRESS RELEASE 

President 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers 

July 29, 1964 

Direcsar Counsel 
Jack Greenberg 

Associate Counsel 
Constance Baker Motley 

TO: SELECTED CIVIL RIGHTS REPORTING SPECIALISTS 

FROM: Jesse DeVore, Jr. 
Director, Public Information 

SUBJECT: Enforcing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 

Legal methods to deal with the new pattern of defiance of 

the new civil rights law, and other problems in the field of 

civil rights litigation, will be developed and discussed by 

top lawyers and law professors at the Law Institute sponsored 

by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund July 31 - August 2nd. 

The stitute commences this Frida and wi continue 

through Sunday at the Airlie House, Warrenton, Va 45_ miles 

from Washington. 

Participating will be some 70 of the leading civil rights 

lawyers from Virginia and other southern states, including 

Georgia and Alabama, professors from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, 

University of Pennsylvania, Howard, and 13 members of the Legal 

Defense Fund's New York City headquarters staff. 

The purpose of the Institute, third in a series (similar 

conferences were held in the spring in Atlanta and New Orleans), 

is to keep civil rights lawyers abreast of the latest develop- 

ments in the field. 

The "third party" suit, a direct outgrowth of the Civil 

Rights Act, for example, will be discussed in detail. Future 

developments in the enforcement of the Civil Rights Act will 

depend to a large degree on the legal tactics formulated during 

this Institute. 
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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 EH 6 



Memorandum -2- July 29, 1964 

As you can tell from the attached agenda, the five major 

topics of discussion will be the Civil Rights Act, State Action, 

School Desegregation, State Criminal Procedure and Protests 

and Demonstrations, In addition, William R. Ming, of the Chi- 

cago firm of McCoy, Ming and Leighton, will speak on the problem 

of harassment of civil rights attorneys. 

1. Civil Rights Act--Following the luncheon speech by Howard 

Glickstein of the U.S. Justice Dept., Jack Greenberg and 

others will discuss the new pattern of defiance of the 

1964 legislation, and the "third party" suit. This refers 

to many instances of initial compliance with the law by 

businessmen who later resegregated under pressure from the 

Klan and other extremist groups. One suit seeking to en- 

join third parties from interference with lawful compliance 

has been argued in Jacksonville, and numerous others are 

planned throughout the south. 

2. State Action--Prof. Mark DeWolfe Howe (Harvard) will dis- 

cuss the expanding concept of "state action"--involvement 

of state and local governments in enforcing discrimination 

in hospitals, professional societies, labor unions, housing, 

and urban renewal. 

3. School Desegregation--Prof. Patricia Harris (Howard) will 

speak on the question of what, in 1964, constitutes an 

adequate plan for integration; and problems with respect to 

teachers and other personnel. 

4. State Criminal Procedure--Prof. Herbert Packer (Pennsylvania) 

will discuss the difficulties of securing bail for Negro 

defendants and the problems of keeping alive federal con- 

stitutional rights throughout the state courts. 

5. Protests and Demonstrations--Prof, Anthony Amsterdam (Penn- 

sylvania) will discuss the legality of various kinds of 

restrictions on peaceful protest as well as the efforts to 

stop the individual states from prosecuting citizens who act 

under the constitutional guarantees of free speech and assembly. 

We hope you wil] be able to attend. 

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