Tuesday, March 27, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) deeply mourns the passing of Linda Brown Thompson who was one of the young students at the heart of LDF’s landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that helped bring an end to racial segregation in America’s public schools. The bravery and resilience […]
Monday, May 13, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) mourns the loss of former board member and trailblazing federal Judge Damon J. Keith, who passed away on April 28th at the age of 96. Over the course of his remarkable career, Judge Keith wrote key decisions in cases that spanned the breadth of civil rights, […]
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 | ldf-perspectives
LDF Remembers Jean Fairfax Click here for a pdf of this tribute. Ms. Jean Fairfax, who for twenty years, was widely regarded as one of among the most influential and innovative visionaries on the LDF staff, passed away last week in Phoenix, Arizona. She was 98 years old. Fairfax founded and served as the Director […]
Wednesday, August 27, 2014 | news
LDF mourns the passing of George Barrett, our cherished cooperating attorney in Nashville, Tennessee. At age 86, George was still practicing law at his firm, Barrett, Johnston, Martin & Garrison, at the time of his death. George spent almost 60 years as a lawyer in the Deep South fighting for racial and economic justice. […]
Friday, July 15, 2016 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) remembers Eric Garner, a 43-year-old African-American father, husband and son. Two years ago, New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo placed Mr. Garner in a banned chokehold as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of selling loose cigarettes. Mr. Garner died later at a […]
Friday, July 8, 2016 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is profoundly saddened to learn about the passing of Dr. Sonnie Hereford, III, a courageous civil rights pioneer and former LDF client. As a valiant supporter of civil rights in the tumultuous Alabama of the 1960s, Dr. Hereford was the lead plaintiff in LDF’s groundbreaking […]
Thursday, October 13, 2016 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (“LDF”) deeply mourns the loss of civil rights icon and our second Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg, who was the last living attorney who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case in the United States Supreme Court. Greenberg died this morning at his home in New York. Sherrilyn […]
Thursday, October 13, 2016 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (“LDF”) deeply mourns the loss of civil rights icon and our second Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg, who was the last living attorney who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case in the United States Supreme Court. Greenberg died this morning at his home in New York. Sherrilyn […]
Thursday, October 13, 2016 | news
Read a pdf of this article here. A memorial service celebrating Jack Greenberg will be held on Monday December 5th at St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University in New York (1160 Amsterdam Avenue) at 2:30 p.m. A reception will follow at Columbia Law School in Drapkin Lounge (Jerome Greene Hall, 3rd Floor). Please RSVP to Briana Florio […]
Saturday, November 2, 2024 | news
Yesterday, a jury in a federal criminal trial found former Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) Officer Brett Hankison, who was involved in the warrant execution that resulted in the killing of Breonna Taylor, guilty on one count of depriving Taylor of her constitutional rights under color of law. The jury acquitted Hankison on the second […]
