by Stanley Augustin | Mar 7, 2014 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
ABA Human Rights Magazine, Vol. 40, Issue No. 1By Jon M. Greenbaum, Chief Counsel and Senior Deputy Director At his inauguration as Alabama’s governor in January 1963, George Wallace infamously and defiantly declared in a speech written by a former Ku Klux Klan...
by Stanley Augustin | Jan 8, 2014 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
http://politix.topix.com/homepage/9645-immigration-reform-the-next-frontier-in-the-war-on-poverty Fifty years ago, as President Lyndon Johnson faced the task of leading our nation out of the trauma of a presidential assassination, he delivered his first State of the...
by Stanley Augustin | Jul 29, 2013 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
It has been almost two weeks since a jury of six women found George Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter. It has been over a year since Trayvon Martin, a then 17-year-old boy, was tragically shot and killed as he walked from a Florida...
by Stanley Augustin | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
“The State of Equality and Justice in America” is a 20-part series of columns written by an all star list of contributors to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The contributors include: U. S. Rep....
by Stanley Augustin | May 9, 2012 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
May 9, 2012 Guest Post (ACS Blog) By Ray McClain, Director of the Employment Discrimination Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law In late April, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), under the leadership of Chair Jackie...
by Stanley Augustin | Mar 8, 2012 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
Women’s History Month, celebrated in March, presents a special time to reflect upon both the achievements and challenges women across the country continue to face. During this continued jobs crisis where African Americans/Blacks and Latinos/Hispanics continue to...
