Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
What Was Brown v. Board of Education? May 17, 1954, marks a defining moment in the history of the United States. On that day, the Supreme Court declared the doctrine of “separate but equal” unconstitutional and handed LDF the most celebrated victory in its storied history. Although the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown was ultimately […]
Monday, April 15, 2019 | ldf-events
Join us for the 65th Anniversary of Brown v. Board.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 | ldf-events
Brown v. Board at 70 A Year of Celebrating the Case that Transformed America In honor of the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education on May 17 2024, LDF is hosting a series of events to reflect on the legacy of Brown and the future of education equity. Celebrating Brown‘s Legacy and Envisioning Our Future 2024 […]
Monday, March 4, 2019 | page
Exclusive Excerpt from Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, by Gilbert King, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Gilbert King’s Devil in the Grove is a richly detailed chronicle of racial injustice in the Florida town of Groveland in 1949, involving four black men falsely accused […]
Monday, March 4, 2019 | page
Attorney General Eric Holder’s Speech Celebrating Brown Thank you, President [Sherrilyn] Ifill, for those kind words – and thank you all for such a warm welcome. It’s a pleasure to be here today. And it’s a privilege to join dedicated public servants like Governor [Deval] Patrick and Governor [Doug] Wilder – along with trailblazers like […]
Monday, March 4, 2019 | page
As our nation celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, it’s important to remember that this landmark case had been years in the making by the time the Supreme Court handed down its ruling. The case that would become Briggs v. Elliott (the first of five segregation cases eventually combined into Brown) actually began in 1947 […]
Saturday, July 24, 2021 | news
Today, a section of Decatur Street between Lewis and Stuyvesant Avenues in Brooklyn, New York, was co-named Jacqueline Berrien Way in honor of former NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) Associate Director-Counsel Jacqueline A. Berrien, an extraordinary and highly accomplished civil rights lawyer, who died in 2015. Ms. Berrien served as associate director-counsel […]
Monday, October 1, 2012 | news
The Bronx district attorney’s office is no longer prosecuting people stopped and arrested for trespassing unless the arresting officer ensures the arrest is warranted. The DA’s bureau chief for Arraignments, Jeannette Rucker, sent a letter to the NYPD saying arresting officers will now have to submit to an interview, as first reported by The New York Times. […]
Friday, February 1, 2013 | case-update
(Washington, D.C.) On February 1, 2013, a broad and diverse range of friend-of-the-court briefs were filed in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, an important case that challenges the constitutionality of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in the United States Supreme Court. The briefs are available here. Among the wide-ranging groups weighing in with briefs in […]
