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...time in which few women were lawyers, Motley served for two decades on the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she developed a reputation as one of the nation’s most skilled civil rights attorneys...
...decades after World War II, as the Civil Rights Movement swept across the South, Motley helped prepare briefs for numerous school desegregation cases sponsored by the NAACP, including the epochal Brown v. Board of Education...
Harvard Hillel, HUDS, the Southern Society, the Texas Club, and Kuumba are hosting this event. Enjoy southern-style grub and Kuumba performances while playing fundraising games. Cash donations will be accepted. All proceeds will benefit the NAACP Disaster Relief Fund, and will be matched by Harvard College. Thursday, September 29, 5:00-7:30 p.m. in Hillel, across from Tommy’s on Mt. Auburn...
Harper, 64, argued his first case before the U.S. Supreme Court just four years out of Harvard Law School as an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in 1969. The case, Daniel v. Paul, pitted African-American residents of Little Rock, Ark., against an all-white club that had denied them membership...
...King’s actions made the civil rights movement the most talked about struggle of the early 1960s. The NAACP had been fighting in the courts for decades when King and others began their activism. It had won substantial victories. But not until King and others began to use radical tactics did the country begin to focus on civil rights. The liberal clergy King chastised in his letter wanted integration, but they wanted a cautious approach. The problem, as King points out, is that when nobody directly demands changed policies, officials feel free to continually put off doing...