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The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is the country’s first and foremost civil and human rights law organization. Founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, who subsequently became the first Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice, LDF was launched at a time when the nation’s aspirations for equality and due process […]

Professors, Students, and Civil Rights Group Seek Preliminary Injunction in Lawsuit Challenging Alabama’s Discriminatory Censorship Law, SB 129

Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and ACLU of Alabama filed a preliminary injunction on behalf of a group of Alabama educators, students, and the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, asking a District Court in Alabama to immediately halt implementation of a harmful censorship law that limits certain discussions about race and sex-based inequalities. […]

Pro Bono Attorney of the Month: Reese Marshall

Reese Marshall feels its his duty as a lawyer to provide them with a choice. Instilled with a social conscience forged in the heated 1960s, Marshall still makes it his business today to help the underserved population of Jacksonville find solutions to their problems. And for those decades of selfless service, Marshall has been named […]

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Last Updated July 2021 The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) owns and operates this internet site (“LDF Site”). This Internet Site Privacy Policy (Privacy Policy) explains how we treat all user data and information collected during your visit to the LDF Site and how we protect your personal privacy within the LDF […]

Prisoners of the Census: Dale Ho Interview

Peter Wagner: Welcome to issues in prison-based gerrymandering, a podcast about keeping the Census Bureau’s prison count from harming our democracy. The Census Bureau counts people in prison as if they were actual residents of their prison cells, even though most state laws say that people in prison are residents of their homes. When prison […]

Prison-Based Gerrymandering Reform

“Prison-based gerrymandering” is a practice whereby many states and local governments count incarcerated persons as residents of the areas where they are housed when election district lines are drawn.   This practice distorts our democratic process by artificially inflating the population count—and thus, the political influence—of the districts where prisons and jails are located.  As a […]

PRINCETON: LDF to honor Louise J. Morse

The Princeton Committee of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. (LDF) will hold its 35th annual champagne reception from 4 to 7 p.m. on Sunday (Oct. 24) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Longtime Princeton resident Louise J. Morse will receive the organization’s annual service award.   A special program to […]

Press Inquiries

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., has Communications staff in New York and Washington, D.C. to handle inquiries from journalists on national issues affecting civil rights. To contact the LDF Communications team or to schedule an interview with an LDF expert, email media@naacpldf.org.

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President Trump’s Revised Executive Order on Immigration and Refugees Continues to Persecute and Discriminate Against Muslims

President Trump’s Revised Executive Order on Immigration and Refugees Continues to Persecute and Discriminate Against Muslims  Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, President Trump signed a revised version of his executive order banning large numbers of immigrants from six predominantly Muslim nations from entering the United States. Like the first version released in […]