10th Annual Institute of the LDF Invitation

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Press Releases, Volume 6. 10th Annual Institute of the LDF Invitation, 1975. 37071f1a-bb92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/f9d8471a-9d63-41a0-9db7-c72f56213feb/10th-annual-institute-of-the-ldf-invitation. Accessed November 02, 2025.

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From: NAACP LEGAL 

10 Columbus Ci 
New York, New 

3 AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. 

10019 

Contact: Norman Bloomfield 
(212) 586-8397 

MEMO TO CITY DESK AND FEATURE EDITOR 

you are cordially invited to cover the tenth annual Institute 

of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to be held at the 

Americana Hotel (New York City) on Friday, May 23. 

Two thousand civil rights advocates from all parts of the 

country are expected to attend the all-day meeting, which will focus 

largely on affirmative employment and educational programs endangered 

by regressive social and economic forces. 

Carl T. Rowan, columnist and former director of the U. S. Informa- 

tion Agency, will present the keynote address at the Institute luncheon. 

Mrs. Ernest Hemingway and Julius LeVonne Chambers, the Fund's president, 

also will speak. In addition, a special award will be presented to 

William T. Coleman, Jr., U. S. Secretary of Transportation and a former 

Legal Defense Fund president. 

As in past years, the Institute offers feature story potentials 

which may be of interest to your readers. Among the panelists are: 

-William Waters, an articulate Chicago bricklayer 

and the plaintiff in one of two retroactive 

seniority (last hired-first fired) cases pending 

in the U.S. Supreme Court. 

‘Mrs. Palecia Franklin Lewis, mother of seven 

children, teacher and a leader of the citizens' 

committee that is helping make school desegrega~ 

tion work in Denver, Colo. 

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*Dan C. Mathes, Jr., a white parent and organizer of the 
bi-racial committee that helped turn Central High School 
in Little Rock, Ark. into a model integrated school. 

A morning panel will consider the "last hired-first fired" 

employment policy that is adversely affecting thousands of minority 

workers as the recession deepens. In addition to Mr. Waters, the panel 

will include Eleanor Holmes Norton, New York City Human Rights Commissioner, 

and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., a prominent labor and civil rights attorney. 

The concurrent morning session will be concerned with the cutback 

in affirmative action educational programs designed to overcome the present 

effects of past discrimination. Panelists will include James L. Curtis, M.D. 

of Cornell University Medical School; Walter J. Leonard, Harvard University; 

Peter James Liacouras, Temple University Law School; and Robert B. McKay, 

New York University Law School. Dean McKay was chairman of the New York 

State Special Commission on Attica in 1971-72. 

In the afternoon, parents, students and community leaders from 

Little Rock, Boston and Denver will discuss their varied experiences in 

tackling school desegregation in the three cities. 

A concurrent afternoon session will be devoted to the capital 

punishment issue. Among the participants will be Peggy Cooper Davis-and 

David E. Kendall, LDF staff members; LeRoy D. Clark, New York University 

Law School; and Hugo Bedau, of Tufts University. 

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is a completely 

separate organization, even though originally established by the NAACP 

in 1939. Our correct designation is NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 

Fund, Inc., frequently shortened to Legal Defense Fund. The organization 

has a national staff and headquarters in New York City, and works with 

400 cooperating attorneys throughout the country.

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