The (NAACP) Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is the first and foremost civil and human rights law firm in the United States of America. Founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, who subsequently became the first United States-African-American Supreme Court Justice, the LDF was launched at a time when the nation’s aspirations for equality and due process of law were stifled by wide-latitude and flatout state-sponsored racial inequality. From that era to the present period, the LDF’s mission has constantly been transformative, and implying to achieve racial justice, equality, and an inclusive society.
Thurgood Marshall (2.July.1908 in Baltimore, Maryland- † 24.January.1993 in Bethesda, Maryland)
First US African - American Supreme Court Justice
LDF DIRECTOR and COUNSELS
The Historical Civil Rights Legacy
The campaigns of the LDF culminated in the landmark Supreme Court decision in the case of "Brown v. Board of Education". The Supreme Court´s ruling in 1954 has been awarded the status of “the most important American governmental act of any kind since the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863". The Court’s unanimous decision overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine of legally sanctioned discrimination, widely known as Jim Crow.
Abraham Lincoln- 16th President of the United States of America (1861-1865)
The Emancipation Proclamation - 1st January 1863 -
"Injustice anywhere, is equal to injustice everywhere "
(Martin Luther King Jr.) -
King was born on 15. Jan.1929 in Atlanta- Georgia, and he was assassinated on 4. April.1968 in Memphis-Tennessee.
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice".
(Martin Luther King Jr.)
Strategy - The arc of the moral universe will bend at a faster pace towards justice, if we pull it.
