Tuesday, February 4, 2014 | news
A Black Judge Has Never Been Elected to Serve in Terrebonne Parish Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana— LDF and cooperating Louisiana attorney, Ronald L. Wilson, filed a challenge under the Voting Rights Act and the U. S. Constitution to Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana’s 32nd Judicial District Court. A Black candidate has never been elected with opposition as a judge on […]
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 | news
(New York)–Next week, beginning on Tuesday, September 2nd, LDF’s political participation team will start trial in Corpus Christi, Texas challenging the state’s discriminatory voter ID law (SB 14). In 2013, LDF intervened in this lawsuit, United States v. Texas, now consolidated with Veasey v. Perry, to strike Texas’s discriminatory photo ID law under Section 2 […]
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 | ldf-perspectives
LDF Celebrates Women History Month Women have always played an essential role in shaping history. But their accomplishments are often ignored or erased. During Women’s History Month we celebrate the women whose courage and intellect have pushed our society towards a more equal union. From Constance Baker Motley, who co-wrote the argument in Brown v Board […]
Thursday, September 19, 2024 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is pleased the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, an agency that is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, is making voter registration easier for visitors to HealthCare.gov. Starting on Sept. 20, 2024, the HealthCare.gov application will include a question allowing applicants to express their interest in […]
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 | news
On Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. This historic moment was due in no small part to the efforts of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the country’s first and foremost civil rights legal organization. At a celebration of the 50th anniversary of […]
Thursday, November 3, 2016 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund hosted its 30th annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner, The Power of Now, on Wednesday, November 2nd at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. The dinner was held the week before the first presidential election in fifty years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act. The powerful […]
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 | news
Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‘I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.’ When I try to […]
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 | news
In 1944 an explosion at Port Chicago, California killed 202 Black soldiers loading armed munitions. When the dangerous and inhumane work resumed at a nearby depot weeks later, a group of 50 Black soldiers, fearing for their safety, refused the work. The refusal was characterized as mutinous by the US Navy and the 50 were […]
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | page
May 17th marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the constitutional moment that compelled our country to reckon with its history and confront the unfulfilled promise of equality first articulated in our founding documents. Brown literally changed America. It is a mid-20th century course correction that ushered in a modern America that […]
Saturday, January 9, 2016 | news
Fifty-five years ago, on January 9, 1961, when the University of Georgia (UGA) accepted its first two black students—Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter–Gault —America marked a key milestone in the battle for racial justice, equal rights, and an inclusive society. UGA’s integration eventually led to the desegregation of other universities throughout the South, and helped overcome […]
