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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. ( NAACP LDF, the Legal Defense Fund, or LDF) is an American civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City . LDF is wholly independent and separate from the NAACP. [ 1] Although LDF can trace its origins to the legal department of the NAACP created by Charles Hamilton Houston in ...
NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. v. Trump, No. 1:17-cv-05427-ALC (S.D.N.Y. 2017), was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, The Ordinary People Society, and a coalition of civil rights groups alleged that the defendants, President ...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP) [a] is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz. [4] [5] [6] Over ...
IX §§ 591-592, 601-602. The National Defense Education Act ( NDEA) was signed into law on September 2, 1958, providing funding to United States education institutions at all levels. [1] NDEA was among many science initiatives implemented by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958 to increase the technological sophistication and power of the ...
A reader from Kansas sent us a fundraising letter she was unhappily surprised to have received on July 2, from the Virginia-based Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund.It asked her for a donation for ...
Sherrilyn Ifill. Sherrilyn Ifill (born December 17, 1962) is an American lawyer and the Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Endowed Chair in Civil Rights at Howard University. She is a law professor and former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. [ 1] She was the Legal Defense Fund's seventh president since Thurgood Marshall ...
Smith. Thoroughgood " Thurgood " Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he was an attorney who fought ...
Attorney Dianis was a part of Advancement Project's inception in 1999, when it was co-founded by former Advancement Project co-director Penda Hair and several of their peers from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. With Advancement Project, she litigated against the disenfranchisement of African-American voters during the 2000 ...