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Bloody Sunday Anniversary Commemorated in Several Events in Alabama including March Across Edmund Pettus Bridge

LDF Calls for Passage of Voting Rights Amendment Act and Another Vote on Civil Rights Nominee This weekend marks the 49th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama march that grew out of voter registration movements spearheaded by SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Lawyers from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, including President […]

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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Gift $2M to Fund Social Justice Initiatives with the NAACP LDF and the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights

(September 04, 2019) – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights announced today that both received gifts of $1 million from Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Their donation will be used to support the NAACP LDF’s ongoing and expanded efforts to strengthen our democracy and […]

Blacks lack presence on federal appellate court

Leslie Proll, Director of LDF’s D.C. Office writes an op-ed in the Miami Herald on the dearth of black appellate court judges in the Eleventh Circuit:  The government shutdown epitomizes the dysfunction caused by a small faction of Congress. But for federal judicial nominations, which require the advice and consent of the Senate, obstruction is […]

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Black Voters Win Right to Elect Candidates of Their Choice as Court Approves Settlement in Pleasant Grove Voting Rights Case

A federal court approved a final settlement between the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the City of Pleasant Grove regarding its at-large method of electing its City Council, which plaintiffs alleged violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Pursuant to the terms of the settlement, the City will change its […]

Black Voters Win Fair Electoral Opportunity in Fayette County, Georgia

On February 18, 2014—more than two years after LDF filed its complaint in Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, et al. v. Fayette County Board of Commissioners, et al.—a federal district court ordered the immediate implementation of a district-based remedial plan to cure the violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act that it found […]

Black Voters Urge Supreme Court to Affirm Win in South Carolina Redistricting Case

The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of South Carolina, and Arnold & Porter filed a motion today in the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a federal court’s ruling that South Carolina’s Congressional District 1 was a racial gerrymander and designed with discriminatory purpose. The motion was filed on behalf of […]

Black Voters Sue Jefferson County Commission for Racial Gerrymandering

Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and Wiggins, Childs, Pantazis, Fisher & Goldfarb filed a lawsuit on behalf of Cara McClure, Greater Birmingham Ministries (GBM), and the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP challenging the Jefferson County Commission districts as unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. The plaintiffs allege that the Commission violated the 14th Amendment of the […]

Black Voters Participate in Elections on Equal Basis for First Time in History in Fayette County, Georgia

Historic Elections Take Place in Fayette County, Georgia Fair Electoral Opportunity for Black Voters Arrives in Fayette County, Georgia Our nation recently commemorated the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education on May 17, 1954. Brown ended legally enforced segregation in our country’s public schools and overturned the “separate but […]