Monday, July 2, 2018 | scholarship-rec
Harvey Bernard Gantt is an architect and former politician from Charleston, South Carolina. He has served on the North Carolina Democratic Party Executive Council, the Democratic National Committee, and the National Capital Planning Commission. In 1961, Gantt attended Iowa State University. After one year of study, he returned to South Carolina and soon afterwards sued […]
Monday, October 29, 2018 | news
BOSTON –Harvard students and alumni will testify in federal court today in support of the university’s ability to consider race as one of many factors in its holistic admissions process. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and local counsel Sugarman Rogers are representing four of the witnesses—three current students and a Harvard alum—who […]
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 | news
Twenty-six Harvard student and alumni groups, comprised of thousands of Asian American, Black, Latinx, Native American, and white Harvard students and alumni, filed an amicus brief today, urging the First Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm a district court decision that upheld Harvard’s holistic, race-conscious admissions policy. The students and alumni are represented by the […]
Thursday, February 25, 2021 | news
Today, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), an organization founded by conservative activist Ed Blum, filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court in their latest bid to overturn the Court’s long-standing precedent that race conscious admissions is legally permissible. This filing asks the Supreme Court to review and reverse decisions […]
Tuesday, August 20, 2013 | case-update
(New York) Harry Belafonte, a renowned activist and musician, released a statement on his Facebook page calling for a new, fair sentencing hearing for LDF’s client, Duane Buck. Mr. Buck was sentenced to death by a jury that was told he was more likely to be dangerous because he is Black. “I am proud to […]
Tuesday, August 20, 2013 | news
Harry Belafonte, a renowned activist and musician, released a statement on his Facebook page calling for a new, fair sentencing hearing for LDF’s client, Duane Buck. Mr. Buck was sentenced to death by a jury that was told that he was more likely to be dangerous because he is Black.” “I am proud to join […]
Monday, February 18, 2013 | news
The last white man to join death row from Harris County was a convicted serial killer in 2004. Since then, 12 of the last 13 men newly condemned to die have been black, a Houston Chronicle analysis of prison and prosecution records shows. The latest death sentence was handed down in October to a Hispanic. The role […]
Monday, July 2, 2018 | scholarship-rec
In 1964, Harold A. Franklin became the first African American student at Auburn University.Franklin graduated from Alabama State University, then named Alabama State College, in 1962 with a degree in government and psychology. When he applied to Auburn, the University denied Franklin admittance in early 1963, leading civil rights attorney Fred Gray to file a […]
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 | case-issue
On August 3, 2020, LDF filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana challenging Louisiana’s failure to ensure all eligible voters can vote safely in the upcoming elections amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. LDF represented the NAACP Louisiana State Conference, Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, and individual voters […]
Monday, March 20, 2017 | ldf-perspectives
By LDF Archives 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 […]
