Word: naacp
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Michael Meltsner, a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund which is initiating the action, yesterday called the suit "novel, to say the least." If successful, the suit will establish an important legal precedent to be used against public officials throughout the South who continue to suppress civil rights activity...
Lawyers for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, including associate counsel Constance Baker Motley, are helping with the case...
...Daniel Richardson, assistant to the executive secretary of the NAACP, asked help "from every human being in this room. I don't care if you are white, black, or have polka dots. The NAACP desperately needs student help for voter registration. Civil rights is everybody's business, so my pitch is to every single person here...
...contrast, students at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, N.J., have already sent $2300 to the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP, stipulating that it be used to defend Donald Harris, a senior who is among the four SNCC workers in the Americus jail. Kenneth G. McDermott, vice-president of the student council, reported that $200 to $300 is being raised daily by the university newspaper, which is printing the names of contributors and the amounts of their contributions
King's chances for winning one of the five school Committee seats in the Nov. 5 election depend mainly on whether the NAACP can register an estimated 15,000 unregistered Negroes in Boston. At present, there are only 13,000 registered Negroes in the city...