On Sunday March 8th, Sherrilyn Ifill gave remarks at the traditional service Sunday morning at Brown Chapel AME Church, afterward participating in a symbolic march that drew an unprecedented 80,000 participants to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The service ...
Sherrilyn Ifill Writes Op-Ed in The Bellingham Herald, Miami Herald, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch “… it is ironic that as Selma is commemorated this month, the Voting Rights Act lies critically wounded by a 2013 ...
Threats to Voting Rights Remain, Selma Gathering Is Told Sherrilyn Ifill, the president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., urged listeners to call their representatives in Congress. “Tell them you demand a ...
Following stirring remarks by President Barack Obama and Congressman John Lewis near the Edmund Pettus Bridge – site of one of the most horrific events in American history – LDF hosted a Unity reception at ...
Selma 50 years later: More bridges to cross “This weekend members of Congress will join the crowds flooding the streets of Selma in remembrance of one of the most heinous attacks by law enforcement on ...
Charles Stephen Ralston Steve Ralston was born in San Francisco, California, in 1937. He attended public schools there, and received his B.A. in 1959 and J.D. in 1962 from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt ...
As we approach the 50thAnniversary of Bloody Sunday, we are proud to showcase a key, historical document from LDF’s archives about its role in the march from Selma to Montgomery. On March 16, 1965, LDF ...
