Five new members were elected to the Board of Directors of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,…

Press Release
January 11, 1962

Cite this item

Five new members were elected to the Board of Directors of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,… preview

Document text

The following text has been generated automatically during the document scanning process. It may contain errors, omissions, or incorrect formatting. Please refer to the PDF document if this text is not usable.

Download

By downloading, publishing, or reusing the Materials outside of the Website, you hereby confirm and attest that you have read and agree to the LDF Archival Collection Terms of Use linked below. We draw your attention to the following:

For those Materials owned by LDF, your use of the Material outside the Site is solely for one or more of the following (the “Permitted Purposes”):

Non-commercial research and private study;
Teaching, scholarship and instruction (including distance learning);
Non-commercial print and non-commercial online use;
Criticism, comment or news reporting; or
For people with visual disabilities (See Section 121 of the Copyright Act).
For those Materials not owned by LDF you understand that:
- It is your responsibility to determine whether the way you plan to use the materials falls within the copyright exception of Fair Use.
- For any use outside of Fair Use, it is your responsibility to seek and obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders.

LDF hereby grants you the right to use LDF owned Materials for the Permitted Purposes without seeking further permission from LDF.

If you publish or redistribute any Materials (including excerpts and quotes), you must include a credit line and/or proper citation to the source of the Material. However, you may not use the name of LDF in any manner which creates any false association between you and LDF or that incorrectly implies any sponsorship or endorsement of you by LDF.

NOTICE: Uses that do not comply with these Terms or that do not fall under Fair Use (or another exception) may make you liable for copyright infringement.

Read the full LDF Archival Collection Terms of Use Here.

I agree to the terms and conditions for use of this content.

If you would like to use this content in other ways, contact us at .

Collection
- Press Releases
Creator
- LDF
Taxonomy
Identifier
- 8a71f90b-bd92-ee11-be37-6045bddb811f

Cite this item

Press Releases, Loose Pages. Five new members were elected to the Board of Directors of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,…, 1962. 8a71f90b-bd92-ee11-be37-6045bddb811f. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/f864c491-bda8-4ce6-a718-f9e7a6f5aa5e/five-new-members-were-elected-to-the-board-of-directors-of-the-naacp-legal-defense-and-educational-fund. Accessed December 04, 2025.

Copied!

    ‘a : 
* PRESS RELEASE 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
TOCOLUMBUS CIRCLE + NEW YORK19,N.Y. © JUdson 6-8397 

DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS JACK GREENBERG 
Prosident 

CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY 
General Counsel Associate Counsel 

B25 

January 11, 1962 

NEW YORK - Five new members were elected to the Board of Directors of 

the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. last night. 

The election was held at the Board's annual meeting at the Hotel 

Roosevelt in New York City. 

The new members are Dr. James M. Nabrit, Jr. of Washington, D. %, 

Mr. Chauncey L. Waddell of New York City; Attorney W. J. Durhen of 

Dallas, Texas; Attorney Thomas B. Dyett of New York City, and Attorney 

David E. Feller of Washington, D. C. 

Dr. Nabrit is President of Howard University in Washington, forme: 

Dean of the Howard Law School, and a well-known civil rights attorney 

who has argued many National Association for the Advancement of Colorec 

People cases. Dr. Nabrit is admitted to practice of law before the 

Texas Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court. 

Mr. Waddell is Chairman of the Board of Directors, Waddell and 

Reed, Inc.; Vice-President, United Funds, Inc.; President, United 

Funds Canada, Ltd.; and President, United International Fund, Ltd. 

He is currently a Trustee of Atlanta University and Morehouse College 

of Atlanta, Ga., and of the Phelps Stokes Fund of New York City. 

Attorney Durham is a member of the Texas Bar Association who has 

engaged in more than twenty-five major civil rights cases since he 

began practicing in 1932. He is now Resident Counsel of the NAACP 

Texas State Conference of Branches, Texas attorney for the Golcoen 

State Mutual Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles, Calif., and of 

the Universal Life Insurance Company of Memphis, Tenn. 

Attorney Dyett is a member of the firm of Dyett, Alexander & 

Dinkins, 401 Broadway, New York City. He is a member of the New York 

County Lawyers Association, of the Association of the Bar of the City 



oes 

of New York and of the American Bar Association. He has been an 

Assistant District Attorney for New York County under three District 

Attorneys from 1927-1937, and a member of the New York City Civil 

Service Commission. 

Mr. Feller is a member of the firm of Feller, Bredhoff and 

Anker which is currently general counsel to the Industrial Unicnism 

Department of the AFL-CIO and the United Steelworkers of America 

He has been an attorney for the Department of Justice, 1946-48: Chief 

Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the United States, 1948-49; assis- 

tant general counsel to the CIO and United Steelworkers of America, 

1949-54; associate general counsel to the above organizations in 

1954-55 and a partner in the law firm of Goldberg, Feller and 

Bredhoff, 1955-60.

Copyright notice

This collection and the tools to navigate it (the “Collection”) are available to the public for general educational and research purposes, as well as to preserve and contextualize the history of the content and materials it contains (the “Materials”). Like other archival collections, such as those found in libraries, LDF owns the physical source Materials that have been digitized for the Collection; however, LDF does not own the underlying copyright or other rights in all items and there are limits on how you can use the Materials. By accessing and using the Material, you acknowledge your agreement to the Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Materials.

Additional info

To the extent that LDF includes information about the Materials’ origins or ownership or provides summaries or transcripts of original source Materials, LDF does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of such information, transcripts or summaries, and shall not be responsible for any inaccuracies.

Five new members were elected to the Board of Directors of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,…

Collection

Creator

Taxonomy

Identifier

Cite this item

Copyright notice

Additional info

You may also be interested in