In the early 1960s Nicholas Katzenbach was part of the cadre of talented lawyers from the Justice Department who worked to ensure that the national promise of equality too long ignored was finally kept.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is deeply saddened by the passing of Judge Louis H. Pollak, a legendary figure in LDF’s and this nation’s quest for racial justice and equality.
May 14, 1961
The Freedom Riders leave for Atlanta for Birmingham.
May 16, 1979
Civil rights leader Asa Philip Randolph dies.
May 18, 1911
Singer Big Joe Turner is born.
May 19, 1925
Malcolm X is born.
In our system of government, there is no right more central and no right more precious than the right to vote.
— , Former United States Attorney General, Member Emeritus, Board of Directors of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Thinking Outside the Cell Series: A Relationship Worthwhile
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By Ronald F. Day
Generally, when we think of relationships, we think of people. This relationship was different. It involved only one person: me. The relationship that I felt enthusiastic talking about is the relationship I developed with learning. The good thing about this relationship is that it created a win-win situation. There was no room for failure.
LDF Applauds New EEOC Guidelines That Expand Workplace Opportunity
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) applauds the issuance of detailed guidelines by the Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that makes it easier for those who have paid their debt to society to transition back into the workforce.
May 17, 1954: America’s Modern Era Begins
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“After every other Supreme Court victory we had celebrated with a raucous, boozy party. But after Brown there was quiet. It was all so awesome.”
The Right’s New Rule: Maximum Ideological Polarization
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By Lee A. Daniels
More and more right-wing elected officials and wannabe officeholders have made clear they hold a different political value, one which was bluntly stated by Richard Mourdock, the Republican Treasurer of Indiana who earlier this month defeated Senator Richard Lugar, one of the pillars of Senate, in the GOP primary.
The Real-Life “Survivor One World:” Will ‘Life’ Imitate ‘Art?’
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By Kenneth J. Cooper
People who are unaccustomed to exercising power need to learn how to seize power and how to exercise it. Those skills and habits of mind will not automatically be implanted when the Census Bureau’s demographic clock ticks down to a majority minority country in 2042 or so.
Summer 2000: The Shootings at Jackson State University; Thirty Years Later
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Editor’s Note — The killing of four unarmed students at Kent State University by Ohio National Guardsmen called in to quell a student demonstration there on May 4, 1970 immediately became one of the iconic moments of the turbulent 1960s-1970s era. Far less remarked upon at the time and since was a similar incident that occurred ten days later at predominantly black Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi on the night of May 14/15.
