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29 Jun 2011, 6:14 am by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
A critical examination of interaction between the national NAACP and local groups over time can tell us much about how national NAACP lawyers shaped the Supreme Court's docket, even as these mainstream lawyers contended with the competing perspectives of grassroots lawyers and social movement activists. [read post]
26 May 2015, 9:02 am
But it has also met with strong criticism from many on the left, including Ralph Nader, the NAACP, and former president Bill Clinton. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 8:03 am
 Upon his swearing in, Marshall became the 96th justice and the first African-American to sit on the nation’s highest court. [read post]
21 Jul 2010, 7:03 am by Big Tent Democrat
"I am just not sure how I would be treated there," Shirley Sherrod said in a nationally broadcast interview. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 8:03 am
 Upon his swearing in, Marshall became the 96th justice and the first African-American to sit on the nation’s highest court. [read post]
2 Jun 2015, 10:50 am
One of the interesting aspects of the debate over Kelo and economic development takings is that it is an unusual issue where the NAACP and conservative Republicans such as Rep. [read post]
6 May 2015, 7:38 am by Matthew Harwood
The NAACP, the National Negro Congress, and other groups protested the exclusion of domestic servants and farmworkers from New Deal laws like the Social Security Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act. [read post]
12 Oct 2009, 9:22 am
The National Pro Bono Celebration is Oct. 25 to 31, 2009. [read post]
12 Nov 2021, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
The structure of the house, in other words, was designed to support white nationalism. [read post]
3 Apr 2022, 9:30 pm by ernst
  He died of a heart attack at the age of 54.Houston was present when, in June 1945, the NAACP called the nation's leading civil rights lawyers to Chicago to plan a campaign against racially restrictive covenants. [read post]
30 Dec 2012, 10:28 am by Old Fox
 Definitely not when Clinton was a child.The Arizona Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock) checked with the state historian, current and past presidents of the Arkansas NAACP, the former president of the Regular Arkansas Baptist Convention, the chairman of the Arkansas Black History Advisory Committee--and all confirmed that there had been no church burnings in Clinton's own state. [read post]
14 Jul 2013, 7:49 am
He says: Following the verdict, with rallies and protests being held across the nation, and the NAACP and Al Sharpton vowing to take matters further, the President might be expected to remind the nation of the importance of the rule of law and respect for the judicial process.... [read post]
29 May 2013, 11:40 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Arizona filed a lawsuit today on behalf of the NAACP of Maricopa County and the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF) challenging a state law that relies on harmful racial stereotypes to shame and discriminate against Black women and Asian and Pacific Islander (API) women who decide to end their pregnancies. [read post]
13 May 2016, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
The day featured panels on subjects and categories of law; sovereignty and violence; and scale (the local, national, and beyond). [read post]
7 Mar 2016, 12:15 pm
Everyone from the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance to the National Women’s Law Center to Lambda Legal, an LGBT rights organization, have filed briefs raising important and diverse topics. [read post]
9 Apr 2013, 7:40 am by Dan Ernst
Historian Brett Gadsden begins by tracing the origins of a long litigation campaign by NAACP attorneys who translated popular complaints about the inequities in Jim Crow schooling into challenges to racial proscriptions in public education. [read post]
I joined my colleagues from the ACLU giving out posters to marchers and had the honor of meeting an astonishing assortment of people from all over, including scores of students and faculty from Berea College, the Kentucky college founded audaciously as a coed, integrated college 10 years before the Civil War; members of NAACP chapters and church groups, black fraternities, sororities, and motorcycle clubs from all over the South and the nation; Latino farmworkers; Detroit union… [read post]