NAACP Legal Defense Fund Responds to Directive to Keep White Students Together in Florida Elementary School

Read the PDF of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Responds to Directive to Keep White Students Together in Florida Elementary School On April 18, 2017, Christine Hoffman, the Principal of Campbell Park Elementary School ...

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Arkansas’s Extreme Execution Schedule

Read the PDF of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Arkansas’s Extreme Execution Schedule The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) condemns the state of Arkansas’ execution of Ledell Lee, Jack ...

LDF Urges House Judiciary Committee to Oppose the Proposed Thin Blue Line Bill

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Urges House Judiciary Committee to Oppose the Proposed Thin Blue Line Bill The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter today to the House Judiciary Committee urging ...

LDF Statement on Trump’s Executive Order Calling for Local Control of K-12 Schools

Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, the White House issued an executive order directing U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to conduct a study on the federal government’s role in K-12 education and ...

NAACP Legal Defense Fund and a Coalition of Organizations Committed to Advancing Constitutional Policing Send Letter to OMB on the President’s Proposed Budget

 NAACP Legal Defense Fund and a Coalition of Organizations Committed to Advancing Constitutional Policing Send Letter to OMB on the President’s Proposed Budget   Read a PDF of our statement here. 

Trial in Baton Rouge is the Culmination of a Nearly 30-Year Battle for Voting Rights for Black People

Trial in Baton Rouge is the Culmination of a Nearly 30-Year Battle for Voting Rights for Black People At a time when voting rights are under attack across the country, lawyers from the NAACP Legal ...

LDF Responds to Decision in Key Alabama Desegregation Case

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Responds to Decision in Key Alabama Desegregation Case Read a PDF of our statement here.  Late yesterday, a federal judge ruled that the city of Gardendale, Alabama, sought to intentionally discriminate ...

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