Legal Fund Gets $1,000 From Baltimore Frontiers
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January 14, 1954

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PRESS RELEASE NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 107 WEST 43 STREET *© NEW YORK 36, N. Y¥. © JUdson 6-8397 ARTHUR B. SPINGARN THURGOOD MARSHALL President Director and Counsel WALTER WHITE ROBERT L. CARTER Secretary Assistont Counsel ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS, ARNOLD DE MILLE Treasurer Press Relotions FOR RELEASE: January 14, 1954 LEGAL FUND GETS $1,000 FROM BALTIMORE FRONTIERS January 14, 1954 BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 14,-- A check for $1,000: was presented by the Baltimore chapter of the Frontiers Club here Tuesday, January 12, to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The presentation, at a luncheon meeting of the club at the Druid Hill yea, was made by Dr, Lucius Butler, outgoing president, to Roy Wilkins of the NAACP nation- al office. Dr. Butler said the Baltimore chapter was making the contribution in ap- preciation of the work the NAACP has been doing, especially the legal attack on segre- gation in the public schools. In his response, Mr. Wilkins outlined the extensive campaign being carried on in the Fight for Freedom drive now underway with the ob- jective of eliminating all race discrimination by 1963, the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, 30