by Press | Jul 11, 2016 | Blog
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following statements following the three tragic and senseless killings of two black men and five police officers: Lawyers’ Committee Responds to Launch of Federal Investigation Into Police Shooting of Alton...
by Press | Jul 2, 2016 | Blog
It has been 52 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, yet the legacies of this historic bill continue to affect our current fight to secure equal justice under law for racial and ethnic minorities. It ended...
by Press | Jun 29, 2016 | Blog
Introduction After the initial resistance against Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954, school integration efforts in American K-12 schools saw some success but have since then eroded in many places.[1] Brown called for the end of state-sanctioned...
by Press | Jun 28, 2016 | Blog
by Marissa Liebling (Legislative Director, Project Vote) & Rosemarie Clouston (National Coordinator, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law) While 38 states and the District of Columbia have created, or are creating, opportunities for their residents to...
by Press | May 9, 2016 | Blog
Since as early as I can remember, I was taught that the only way for everyone to be equal is through education and voting. My ancestors shed blood and tears to provide me and my heirs the opportunity to vote. Now, as a number of states have passed laws that make it...
by Press | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog
On April 11 and 12, 2016, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee) partnered with Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. for the fraternity’s annual James “Biff” Carter Legislative Congress on Capitol Hill, also known as “Kappas on Capitol...
