Thursday, January 7, 2016 | news
NAACP LDF celebrates the 55th anniversary of the desegregation of the University of Georgia (UGA) and the courage of award-winning journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who was one of the first two African-American students to integrate UGA. In 1959, Hunter-Gault applied to UGA, but was informed that the dormitories were filled to capacity and could not admit […]
Monday, September 11, 2017 | news
A Decades-Old Conviction Cost Me My Post Retirement Job I MADE A MISTAKE more than 40 years ago. When I was about 18 years old, I got into a fight with another young woman. After the fight, her father pressed charges against me and I was ultimately convicted of assault at 19 and sentenced to five […]
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 | case-update
Lawsuit Filed Today on Behalf of Well-Qualified Individuals Who Have Been Fired and Denied Jobs Because of Unlawfully Restrictive Screening Policy (Washington, D.C.)—The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”), the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs (“Washington Lawyers’ Committee”), and the law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP, today filed […]
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 | news
A Black Judge Has Never Been Elected to Serve in Terrebonne Parish Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana— LDF and cooperating Louisiana attorney, Ronald L. Wilson, filed a challenge under the Voting Rights Act and the U. S. Constitution to Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana’s 32nd Judicial District Court. A Black candidate has never been elected with opposition as a judge on […]
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 | news
(New York)–Next week, beginning on Tuesday, September 2nd, LDF’s political participation team will start trial in Corpus Christi, Texas challenging the state’s discriminatory voter ID law (SB 14). In 2013, LDF intervened in this lawsuit, United States v. Texas, now consolidated with Veasey v. Perry, to strike Texas’s discriminatory photo ID law under Section 2 […]
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 | ldf-perspectives
LDF Celebrates Women History Month Women have always played an essential role in shaping history. But their accomplishments are often ignored or erased. During Women’s History Month we celebrate the women whose courage and intellect have pushed our society towards a more equal union. From Constance Baker Motley, who co-wrote the argument in Brown v Board […]
Thursday, September 19, 2024 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is pleased the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, an agency that is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, is making voter registration easier for visitors to HealthCare.gov. Starting on Sept. 20, 2024, the HealthCare.gov application will include a question allowing applicants to express their interest in […]
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 | news
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 Fund, Inc. (LDF), the country’s first and foremost civil rights legal organization. At a celebration of the 50th anniversary of […]
Thursday, November 3, 2016 | news
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 powerful […]
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 | news
Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‘I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.’ When I try to […]
