The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,Inc. is an American civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City.
Jack Greenberg was an American attorney and legal scholar. He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984,succeeding Thurgood Marshall. He was involved in numerous crucial cases,including Brown v. Board of Education,which ended segregation in public schools. In all,he argued 40 civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court,and won almost all of them.
Derrick Albert Bell Jr. was an American lawyer,legal scholar,and civil rights activist. Bell first worked for the U.S. Justice Department,then the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,where he supervised over 300 school desegregation cases in Mississippi.
Robert Lee Carter was an American lawyer,civil rights activist and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The University of Texas School of Law is the law school of the University of Texas at Austin,a public research university in Austin,Texas. According to Texas Law’s 2019 disclosures,90 percent of the Class of 2019 obtained full-time,long-term bar passage required/JD advantage employment nine months after graduation.
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) is a national non-profit civil rights organization formed in 1968 by Jack Greenberg to protect the rights of Latinos in the United States. Founded in San Antonio,Texas,it is currently headquartered in Los Angeles,California and maintains regional offices in Sacramento,San Antonio,Chicago,and Washington,D.C.
Spottswood William Robinson III was an American civil rights lawyer,jurist,and educator who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1966 to 1989. He previously served as a U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 1964 to 1966.
James Madison Nabrit III was an African American civil rights attorney who won several important decisions before the U.S. Supreme Court. He was also a long-time attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights,formerly called the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights,is an umbrella group of American civil rights interest groups.
In the United States,a legal defense fund is an account set up to pay for legal expenses,which can include attorneys' fees,court filings,litigation costs,legal advice,or other legal fees. The fund can be public or private and is set up for individuals,organizations,or for a particular purpose. These funds are often used by government public officials,civil rights organizations,and public interest organizations.
Sharon Emily Epperson is a senior personal finance correspondent for CNBC. She also appears on NBC News shows,Today and NBC Nightly News.
William P. Quigley is a law professor and Director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans. He was named the Pope Paul VI National Teacher of Peace by Pax Christi USA in 2003.
Benjamin Todd Jealous is an American civil rights leader,environmentalist and executive director of the Sierra Club. He served as the president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 2008 to 2013. When he was selected to head the NAACP at age 35,he became the organization's youngest-ever national leader. The Washington Post in 2013 described him as "one of the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders."
John A. Payton was an African-American civil rights attorney. In 2008,he was appointed the sixth president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund serving in that post until his death. Prior to this,he was a partner at the law firm WilmerHale for 20 years.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States,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,and Ida B. Wells. Over the years,leaders of the organization have included Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins.
William Robert Ming Jr. was an American lawyer,attorney with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and law professor at University of Chicago Law School and Howard University School of Law. He presided over the Freeman Field mutiny court-martials involving the Tuskegee Airmen. He is best remembered for being a member of the Brown v. Board of Education litigation team and for working on a number of the important cases leading to Brown,the decision in which the United States Supreme Court ruled de jure racial segregation a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
NAACP in Kentucky is very active with branches all over the state,largest being in Louisville and Lexington. The Kentucky State Conference of NAACP continues today to fight against injustices and for the equality of all people.
Paul Brest is an American scholar of constitutional law,a former president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,and a former dean of Stanford Law School. He is an influential theorist on the role of non-profit organizations in society,and is widely credited with coining the name originalism to describe a particular approach to interpreting the United States Constitution.
Sherrilyn Ifill 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. She was the Legal Defense Fund's seventh president since Thurgood Marshall founded the organization in 1940. Ifill is a nationally recognized expert on voting rights and judicial selection. In 2021,Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world on its annual Time 100 list.
Janai Nelson is an American lawyer,who currently serves as the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF).
