Monday, March 4, 2019 | page
Brown v. Board of Education The Southern Manifesto and “Massive Resistance” to Brown v. Board of Education Explore the case Almost immediately after Chief Justice Earl Warren finished reading the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion in Brown v. Board of Education in the early afternoon of May 17, 1954, Southern white political leaders condemned the decision and vowed […]
Monday, March 4, 2019 | page
A Revealing Experiment Brown v. Board and “The Doll Test” Learn More About Brown v. Board Doctors Kenneth and Mamie Clark and “The Doll Test” In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and conducted a series of experiments known colloquially as “the doll tests” to study the psychological effects of segregation on African-American […]
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 | ldf-perspectives
by Kyle Barry, LDF Policy Counsel President Trump’s judicial nominees are front and center in the Senate this week, as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republican majority — unable to advance their conservative agenda with legislation — move to reshape the judiciary with far-right and highly partisan judges. The Senate is scheduled to confirm five judges this week, including […]
Thursday, June 7, 2018 | ldf-perspectives
By: Natasha Merle, Associate Counsel and Fried Frank Fellow at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund On November 8th, millions of Americans went to their local polling precincts and cast ballots in the general election. By the early morning of November 9th, voters knew not only the President-Elect but also who would occupy 99 of the […]
Thursday, December 15, 2016 | ldf-perspectives
By Kyle Barry Policy Counsel NAACP Legal Defense Fund A memo released today by a number of organizations, including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), revealed gaping holes in Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions’s response to his Senate Judiciary Questionnaire (SJQ) that preclude the Judiciary Committee from holding a thorough and complete hearing on his nomination. This […]
Thursday, September 2, 2010 | news
FOLLOWING the release in 1980 of a groundbreaking study titled, "Legal Implications of Racially Disproportionate Incarceration Rates," Washington state officials asked themselves a hard question about why the state led the nation in the disproportionate incarceration of African Americans. Shortly afterward, the Legislature commissioned its own study of the effect of race in its criminal-justice […]
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 | news
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from the Philadelphia district attorney’s office in the racially charged case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, bringing an end to nearly 30 years of litigation over the fairness of the sentencing hearing that resulted in his death sentence for the 1981 shooting of a police officer, the Washington Post reports. […]
Friday, July 26, 2013 | news
NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Ryan Haygood appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show to discuss the important effort by the Department of Justice to have Texas submit all proposed voting changes for review before they can take effect. Attorney General Holder’s announcement sends an important message in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision that […]
Thursday, April 5, 2018 | nejad
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund hosted its 30th annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner, The Power of Now, on Wednesday, November 2nd at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. The dinner was held the week before the first presidential election in fifty years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act. The […]
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 | page
The Path to the 2024 Election How Voters and Civil Rights Advocates Can Prepare for the Upcoming Election Season By Victoria (Tori) Wenger LDF Attorney The 2024 election cycle has officially dawned, with less than a year until the final ballots for the presidential general election will be cast. For decades, the Legal Defense Fund […]
