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21 May 2015, 1:33 pm by Steve Lash
An anti-abortion group did not infringe upon the NAACP’s trademark by referring to the venerable Baltimore-based black civil rights group as the “National Association for the Abortion of Colored People” in an online article, a federal appeals court has ruled. [read post]
21 May 2015, 8:47 am by Rebecca Tushnet
 Radiance posted an article criticizing the NAACP’s annual Image Awards, entitled “NAACP: National Association for the Abortion of Colored People. [read post]
21 May 2015, 5:23 am by Bloomberg
The ruling came in a case brought against the NAACP by the operators of a Virginia-based nonprofit that opposed abortion in the black community. [read post]
19 May 2015, 3:48 pm
The blog post, entitled “NAACP: National Association for the Abortion of Colored People,” claimed that the NAACP embraces “all things liberal, most things socialistic, and nothing pro-life. [read post]
19 May 2015, 8:45 am
The district court had held that Radiance Foundation’s use of the headline “NAACP: National Association for the Abortion of Colored People” for a Web site article harshly criticizing the NAACP infringed NAACP’s trademark. [read post]
12 May 2015, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
He had subscribed to the NAACP’s journal as early as 1915, when he wished its editor W.E.B. [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]
16 Apr 2015, 8:18 am by Michael Klarman
The Democratic National Convention that summer offered rousing endorsements of that right, and most Democratic senators announced support for it. [read post]
11 Apr 2015, 6:20 am
“This is a political debate, and opponents will use cracks in the facade as a basis for driving a truck through it,” [said Wade Henderson, president and chief executive of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, an umbrella group of civil rights advocates that includes the NAACP and the National Urban League].Further down in the column — 15 paragraphs later — there's the news that Henderson gets paid something like $88,250 a year from the… [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 3:36 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
It turned out an attorney from the NAACP had filed a suit on her behalf, which the court decided prosecutors either knew or should have known.Judge Jack Onion, former presiding judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, was sitting on the Third Court as a visiting judge. [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]
24 Feb 2015, 4:13 pm by Ernster the Virtual Library Cat
Dubois--author, scholar, educator, magazine editor, activist, international spokesman and founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 3:11 am by Walter Olson
Petitioners in the case, to quote the opinion, “include the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC); the NAACP (Austin Chapter); the National Bar Association (Dallas Affiliate – J.L. [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 2:40 pm by Francisco Macías
I have been making use of the original National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) papers since the 1990s, as well as papers of individuals such as Thurgood Marshall, and the Houston family (Charles Hamilton Houston and his father, William LePre Houston). [read post]
9 Feb 2015, 4:49 am
He is part of a country which boasts that it has never lost a war; but he is also the representative of a conquered nation. [read post]
9 Feb 2015, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Thurgood Marshall as a young NAACP lawyer Meanwhile, the abuses of black soldiers both on and off bases continued. [read post]
2 Feb 2015, 8:21 am by Margaret Wood
  The Niagara Movement came into being in 1905, while the National Urban League was established in 1910, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed in 1915. [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 10:09 am by The Public Employment Law Press
He has been awarded several civic and community awards including the Humanitarian Award of the North American Boards of Rabbis and the Roy Wilkins Humanitarian Award of the New York State NAACP. [read post]
11 Jan 2015, 6:00 pm
But the same issue could arise with regard to atheist events, nonreligious school events, NAACP-organized rallies, NRA-organized rallies, or anything else. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 3:04 pm by Jeffrey Vagle
With the benefit of hindsight, we have looked back in shame at some of the more egregious curtailments of constitutional liberties developed in hasty reaction to national crisis, including the Alien and Sedition Acts, the suspension of habeas corpus, the Palmer raids, the mass internment of Japanese-Americans, and the secret domestic surveillance of "subversives" by the FBI, including that National Lawyers Guild, the NAACP, and Martin Luther King, Jr. [read post]