New Approach Contained in Sit-In Brief Filed in U.S. Supreme Court

Press Release
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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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

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