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BV 77-2378 ETAILS AT SAVANNAH, GEORGIA: MISCELLANEOUS a An article appearing in the "Lighthouse and Informer," —~ ~““S™eekty newspaper published at Columbia, South Carolina {no aonger in existence), on April 26, 1944, reflected that THURGOOD MARSHALL, speaker, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), would arrive in South Carelina between May 29 and 31, 1944, to draw up strategy for the vote case to be brought against the White Dewocratic Primary by the Negro Citizens Committee. b7C The February 11, 1945, edition of the "Lighthouse and Informer" carried an article captioned "The South Carolina NAACP Fights On" which revealed that THURGOOD MARSHALL, special counsel for the NAACP, was representing one Qi :2 her Suit asking for a permanent injunction against discrimination in the South Carolina school system. An article captioned "Thurgood Marshall RAACP Speaker' appeared in the Savannah Evening Press, a daily newspaper pudlished in Savannah, Georgia, on December 7, 1951. This article revealed that officials were arriving in Savannah for @ three-day meeting of the state branch of the NAACP. The principal speaker and best known person coming to Savannah for the session was listed as THURGOQGD MARSHALL, special counsel for the NAACP, An article appearing in the "Times and Dewocrat," a daily newspaper published at Orangeburg, South Carolina, on November 4, 1955, revealed that a crowd of approximately 300 Swansea and Lexington County, South Carolina, citizens jammed ,_,- ‘dato the suditorium at Orangeburg, South Carolina, to pledge OU their support in the battle against integrat s the NAACP. Among the speakers wa of Lexington County, South Carolina, who preceded the gues speaker and who "cut loose with a verbal assault against who he termed ' er he is', THURGO@® MARSHALL, P official. *MARSHALL' paid, ‘is neither Negro or white. He isn't any race in cular = he's just involved for whatever sum of money he can get out of it.'"