Today, March 20th 2017, we celebrate the 77th anniversary of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). To many, LDF is best known for ending school segregation through the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. LDF is also well-known for the pivotal work of its founder and first Director-Counsel, Thurgood Marshall, who subsequently became the first African-American Supreme Court Justice. But did you know that LDF helped map the successful 1965 Selma to Montgomery march? Did you know that we represented Muhammad Ali?Did you know that LDF has litigated in nearly every state in the nation?
Here are five things you may not have known about LDF’s crucial role in the civil rights movement and how our history helps to ignite our current and future efforts.
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