Tuesday, November 25, 2014 | news
Out of the Ferguson crisis, US News and World Report list, “5 Things Civil Rights Groups Want From Ferguson,” a number of issues which civil rights organizations hope to focus debate as events unfold in Ferguson and reverberate throughout the country. “Activists are pointing to structures in Ferguson’s local political system that have bred […]
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 | news
Gilbert King’s riveting account of Thurgood Marshall and other LDF attorneys efforts to obtain justice for four African Americans wrongly accused of rape in 1949 Florida was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The Pulitzer Prize Board described Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, as “a richly detailed […]
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has been called the law firm for black America. Once run by Thurgood Marshall, the group played a major role in desegregating public schools and fighting restrictions at the ballot box. Now, the Legal Defense Fund is preparing for a new leader — just as the Supreme Court considers cases […]
