New Approach Contained in Sit-In Brief Filed in U.S. Supreme Court
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August 27, 1963

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Press Releases, Volume 2. Memo on MLK Alabama Voting Drive, 1965. 0cf9aae6-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/1ba8ad87-22fb-4edc-842f-a6216c1bd8a4/memo-on-mlk-alabama-voting-drive. Accessed August 19, 2025.
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10 Columbus Circle Se New York, N.Y. 10019 /U JUdson 6-8397 NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund PRESS RELEASE President Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg Associate Counsel Constance Baker Motley March 11, 1965 MEMORANDUM TOs WORKING PRESS FROM: Jesse DeVore, Director of Public Information Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, today filed the attached memorandum in support of Negroes seeking the right to vote under leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King. Legal Defense Fund attorneys seek an injunction against Gov. George C. Wallace, Alabama Public Safety Director Al Lingo and Dallas County Sheriff James G. Clark, The injunction is being sought on grounds that federal courts have the right to restrain state officials from depriving citizens of their constitutional rights. Legal Defense Fund attorneys, charge that Negroes cannot protect themselves except through the federal court because Defendants Wallace, Lingo and Clark, "as evidenced by their actions of March 7th and their published statements"...seek to punish Negroes "summarily with the club and the whip," in total disregard of standards of due process of law, Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487