(New York, NY) – The right to vote is at the core of our democratic values. Fifty years ago today, our nation took a historic step forward to increase the right to vote by establishing ...
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 ...
Sleepy county’s history of discrimination It’s a process that has become all too familiar for civil rights lawyers this past year — sitting at a computer poring over yet another video showing a state official ...
V. Renée Cutting, Chief Development Officer of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc., is responsible for developing and implementing fundraising strategies to advance LDF’s mission. Renée has over 18 years of fundraising experience and has ...
In a lead up to the 50th Anniversary of the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was signed on August 6th by President Lyndon B. Johnson, hundreds gathered at the Smithsonian Museum of American ...
ACS National Convention 2015 June 11 – 13, 2015 Capital Hilton 1001 16th Street, NW Washington, D.C. From American Constitution Society: As structural inequality persists and overt racial animus becomes rarer, the ability to attack policies ...
Amid disturbing allegations of police abuse and use of excessive force, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joins calls for a full and complete investigation into the in-custody death of Sandra Bland, ...
