NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

Fights for equality, access to education, employment, health care, housing, environmental justice, voting rights, criminal justice. Provides scholarships to promising African-American undergraduates and law students.

99 Hudson Street 16th Floor New York, NY 10013 Phone: (212) 965-2200 Fax: (212) 219-1595 EIN/Tax ID: 13-1655255 www.naacpldf.org

Detailed Description of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

Who We Are: The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) is one of America's leading civil rights legal organizations and is devoted to securing equal justice for all. LDF was founded in 1940 under the direction of Thurgood Marshall, who later became Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. LDF, under Thurgood Marshall's leadership, argued and won the landmark 1954 Supreme court decision Brown v. Board of Education, the school desegregation case that put an end to the 'separate but equal' doctrine of government discrimination. What We Do: LDF helps create laws that protect racial minorities, women, and others from bigotry, and we put teeth in the law by prosecuting those who discriminate. LDF has been involved in more cases before the U.S. Supreme Court than any group other than the U.S. government. Many of those cases have established important precedents for safeguarding the rights of people of color, women, and the poor. While litigation remains our primary focus, LDF also works outside the courtroom, helping to shape government policies, inform the public about civil rights issues, and strengthening coalitions with other concerned organizations. LDF is helping to prepare the next generation of leaders through out highly competitive scholarship programs: the Herbert Lehman Educational Fund for undergraduates and the Earl Warren Legal Training Program for law students. LDF works with dozens of cooperating attorneys across the U.S., who volunteer their services. This network helps us to identify plaintiffs who might otherwise be without help or hope. Very often these locally generated cases turn out to be critical tests of civil rights law.

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