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...
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African American founding fathers of the United States (section LDF, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund)
the NAACP, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) was set up by Thurgood Marshall in 1940; it became fully independent of the NAACP in 1957...
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Tony West (attorney) (section Early life and education)
campaign. West serves on the Board of Directors for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. West began his career at the Justice Department when...
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Maya Wiley (category People associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund)
for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Open Society Institute. Wiley spent two and a half years as...
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Sherrilyn Ifill (category People associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund)
former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She was the Legal Defense Fund's seventh president since Thurgood Marshall founded...
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The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) is a national non-profit civil rights organization formed in 1968 by Jack Greenberg to...
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rights, voting rights, and violence prevention. Civil rights legal defense funds include the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Women's Equity...
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Thurgood Marshall (category People associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund)
was an attorney who fought for civil rights, leading the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Marshall was a prominent figure in the movement to end...
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Janai Nelson (category People associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund)
serves as the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF). Nelson earned her B.A. from New York University and her J.D. from UCLA...
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attention and support from various organizations including the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund which ultimately prompted President Bill Clinton to grant...
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Sigma Pi Phi (category Clubs and societies in the United States)
the founders of the NAACP Jack Greenberg, succeeded Thurgood Marshall as the leader of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Eric Holder,...
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Vanita Gupta (category People associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund)
Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Throughout her career, she has drawn support from a wide range of liberal and conservative activists...
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Gwen Ifill (redirect from The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama)
2009). "Demographics and Destiny". The New York Times. Retrieved November 15, 2016. "NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Mourns Passing of...
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Lia Epperson (category People associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund)
litigation and policy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund from 2001 to 2005. Her scholarship focuses primarily on federal courts and educational policies...
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Teddy Swims (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
in June (from which he donated the royalties to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund), and "You're Still The One" (which he had previously posted...
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Marian Wright Edelman (redirect from Children’s Defense Fund)
the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's Mississippi office, working on racial justice issues connected with the civil rights movement and representing...
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Jim Steyer (category People associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund)
attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. There, he helped spearhead the Poverty and Justice Program, focused on developing national legal and legislative...
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Huda Kattan (section Philanthropy and activism)
that Huda Beauty will donate $500,000 to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. In 2021, Kattan and Huda Beauty started a petition for beauty brands...
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Derrick Bell (category People associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund)
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...
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Laverne Cox (section Honors and awards)
Magazine Unveils Its 2014 EBONY Power 100 List – NAACP LDF". Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Archived from the original on December 19, 2014...
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LDF may refer to: Leaders For Democracy Fellows Program NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Lesotho Defence Force Liberian Development Foundation Liechtenstein...
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Jocelyn Benson (category People associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund)
supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations. Benson has also worked as a summer associate for voting rights and election law for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational...
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Retrieved April 8, 2023. Benjamin L. Hooks, "Birth and Separation of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund," Crisis 1979 86(6): 218–220. 0011–1422 Pacelle...
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Jack Greenberg (category People associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund)
12, 2016) was an American attorney and legal scholar. He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984, succeeding Thurgood...
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university and she persisted in applying to the University of Alabama to earn a degree in accounting. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund of Alabama...
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William P. Quigley (category People associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund)
wage, educational reform, civil liberties, constitutional rights, and civil disobedience. Quigley has litigated cases with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational...
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wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in the United States are black. Since 1991, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund has produced quarterly...
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actions included the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, who argued that California's donor disclosure demands...
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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Sierra Club, and United Steelworkers. The Leadership Conference has historically focused on bias and hate reduction...
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Julius L. Chambers (category People associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund)
1963 to 1964, Chambers also served as the first intern for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) in New York, having been selected by LDF's Director-Counsel...
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