On May 31, 1961, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed suit in the U. S. District Court, alleging that the university had rejected Meredith only because of the color of his skin, as he had a highly successful record.

In September 1975, the Georgia Legal Services Program, on behalf of local NAACP members, filed suit in US District Court, alleging that women and blacks were systematically excluded from grand juries responsible for appointing members to the McIntosh County Board of Education.

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund brought the Swann case on behalf of six-year-old James Swann and nine other families, with Julius L. Chambers presenting the case.

The Association, represented throughout by Robert L. Carter of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, responded by moving to dissolve the order on the grounds that its activities within the state did not require its qualification under the statute and that the state's suit was intended to violate its rights to freedom of speech and of assembly as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.

In 1981, after Ronald Reagan took office, she joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ( LDF ) as an assistant counsel, eventually becoming head of its Voting Rights project.

* 1950 Charles Hamilton Houston ( Chairman, NAACP Legal Committee )

In 1953 the NAACP Legal Defense Fund asked Commager for advice for their argument before the Supreme Court for the case of Brown vs Board of Education, but at the time he was not persuaded that this litigation would succeed on historical grounds, and so advised the lawyers.

Volunteer lawyers from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Inc (" Ink Fund "), National Lawyers Guild, Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee ( LCDC ) an arm of the ACLU, and the Lawyers ' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ( LCCR ) provided free legal services — handling arrests, freedom of speech, voter registration and other matters.

The judges were Julius Chambers, President, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ; Maxwell Lillienstein, General Counsel, American Booksellers Association ; and Anthony Podesta, Founding President, People for the American Way.

Under his leadership, the NAACP set up the Legal Defense Fund, which raised numerous legal challenges to segregation and disfranchisement, and achieved many successes.

Following a clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Byron White, Kendall spent five years as an associate counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, focusing on criminal defense practice, handling high-profile death penalty cases including Coker v. Georgia and the death penalty appeals of John Arthur Spenkelink and Gary Gilmore.

Drinan served on the Board of Directors of People for the American Way, the International League for Human Rights, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, the International Labor Rights Fund, Americans for Democratic Action, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

In the early 1990s, in Trouillon v. City of Hawthorne, the Legal Defense and Education Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) successfully challenged an urban renewal plan on the basis of race discrimination by bringing suit under the Fair Housing Act.

Marshall — working as special counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund — determined that the first course of action should be a publicity campaign mounted with the aim of gathering public support for the release of the men.

She began practicing law with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc .' s Mississippi office, working on racial justice issues connected with the civil rights movement and representing activists during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964.

Bell recruited Wade McCree, an African American then serving as a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, to serve as United States Solicitor General, and Drew S. Days, III, an African American lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund he had admired in oral arguments before him, to head the Civil Rights Division.

In the early 1980s he worked in private law, including volunteer counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

From 1981 to 1986, he was a volunteer counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Logo of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. ( NAACP LDF, the Inc. Fund, or simply LDF ) is a leading United States civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City.

* Hooks, Benjamin L. " Birth and Separation of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ," Crisis 1979 86 ( 6 ): 218-220.

Crafting Law in the Second Reconstruction: Julius Chambers, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Title VII.

* Tauber, Steven C. " The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the U. S. Supreme Court's Racial Discrimination Decision Making ," Social Science Quarterly 1999 80 ( 2 ): 325-340.

The Impact of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on Capital Punishment Decision Making in the U. S. Courts of Appeals ," Political Research Quarterly 1998 51 ( 1 ): 191-219.

He has been honored by organizations representing the spectrum of issues to which he has devoted his career, including the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award from LCCR ; the Benjamin Hooks " Keeper of the Flame " Award from the national NAACP ; the Public Service Achievement Award from Common Cause ; the Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award from the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund ; the " National Good Guy Award " from the National Women's Political Caucus ; the Isaiah Award for the Pursuit of Justice from the American Jewish Committee ; the Flag Bearer Award from Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays ( P-FLAG ); the Edison Uno Memorial Civil Rights Award from the Japanese American Citizens League ; the University of Chicago Alumni Public Service Citation ; " Citizen of the Year " from the Guillian-Barr Syndrome Foundation International ; and named in 2004 one of Vanity Fair's " Best Stewards of the Environment.

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Expelled from France by the Nazis in 1941, on her return to the United States, Miriam Davenport became involved in a number of humanitarian efforts including the Progressive Schools Committee for Refugee Children, the International Rescue and Relief Committee, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

Her legal career began as a law clerk in the fledgling NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ( LDF ), where she worked with a distinguished group of civil rights attorneys, among them future U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, prominent Jewish-American civil-rights advocate Jack Greenberg, and many others.

Returning to the United States in 1969, he became first assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York City.

Greenberg became the only white legal counselor for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (" LDF ") in 1949, and, in 1961, succeeded Thurgood Marshall as LDF's Director-Counsel.

Soon afterwards, Bell took a position as an assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ( LDF ), crafting legal strategies at the forefront of the battle to undo racist laws and segregation in schools.

Robinson also chaired the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's ( NAACP ) million-dollar Freedom Fund Drive in 1957, and served on the organization's board until 1967.

* 1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) is founded.

Although it is not explicitly protected in the First Amendment, the Supreme Court ruled, in NAACP v. Alabama,, freedom of association to be a fundamental right protected by it.

* July 28 – The Silent Protest is organized by the NAACP in New York to protest the East St. Louis Riot of July 2, as well as lynchings in Texas and Tennessee.

The Topeka Public Schools administration building is named in honor of McKinley Burnett, NAACP chapter president who organized the case.

Ethnic areas such as the Korean American section of 8th Street and Cholla Drive, thousands of American Jews made the city their home, and according to the Desert Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), the city's population is over 10 percent African-American or Black.

The following year, 1990, she received an NAACP Image Award, which is given for " outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts "; an award she cherished as it " was coming from my own people ".

Nevertheless, the United States Supreme Court held in NAACP v. Alabama that the freedom of association is an essential part of the Freedom of Speech because, in many cases, people can engage in effective speech only when they join with others.

Du Bois wrote in an article for the NAACP journal Crisis, his article “ Criteria of Negro Art ,” in which he argued that all art is propaganda and his art would always be political.

It was also opposed by the Sierra Club for putting so much more toward roads that will simply fill up again, as well as by the NAACP since it is a regressive tax that would have also applied to basic necessities like groceries, and would have singled-out MARTA as the only agency that would be blocked from receiving operating funds.

It is named after Medgar Evers, the former Mississippi Field Secretary for the NAACP, and is administered by the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority ( JMAA ), which also oversees aviation activity at Hawkins Field ( HKS ) in northwest Jackson.

The Spingarn of Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) for outstanding achievement by an African American.

The Prince George's County Public Schools was ordered to pay the NAACP more than $ 2 million in closing attorney fees and is estimated to have paid the NAACP over $ 20 million over the course of the case.

Supporters of the amendment, including People for the American Way, Florida Education Association, and Florida NAACP, focused on large classes in many urban areas of Florida which had as many as 40 students: Meek said, " the first time parents will have a chance to vote on something they've always wanted and that is smaller class sizes.

An NAACP Image Award is an accolade presented by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to honor outstanding people of color in film, television, music, and literature.

Similar to other awards, like the Oscars and the Grammys, the 35 categories of the Image Awards are voted on by the award organization's members ( that is, NAACP members ).

Carla Sims, communications director for the NAACP in Washington, D. C., said " The term ' colored ' is not derogatory, NAACP chose the word ' colored ' because it was the most positive description commonly used at that time.

The Crisis is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), and was founded in 1910 by W. E. B.

He repeatedly refuses to play the " race card " even when baited to do so by several reporters, is clearly much more politically conservative than an attorney arguing such a case at the time might have been expected to be, and is shown to be in sharp contrast with Lucien on such matters, as well as with Ellen, to whom he expresses his strong support for the death penalty ( just not for Carl Lee ) and his contempt for the ACLU and, to a lesser extent, the NAACP.

Cracker Barrel is on the Corporate Advisory Board for the Texas Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), and is a corporate sponsor of the NAACP Leadership 500 Summit, where three of its officials were moderators and panelists in May 2011.