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Program aims to create new generation of civil rights lawyers with scholarships and training
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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund aims to create a new generation of civil rights lawyers in the South through a program offering law school scholarships and civil rights internships and fellowships.
The fund announced the new Marshall-Motley Scholars Program on Martin Luther King Jr. Day earlier this week. The program is named for the late Justice Thurgood Marshall and the late U.S. District Judge Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court and the first to serve as a federal judge.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund launched a program with the generous donation.
Published January 21st
Written by Paul Meara
Thanks to an incredibly generous anonymous donation of $40 million, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is using the money to support a new generation of civil rights lawyers.
On Monday (January 18), the program was announced and is dedicated to pursuing racial justice across the South by putting 50 students through law schools nationwide. The scholarships require that the future lawyers commit to eight years of racial justice work in the South, starting with a two-year post-graduate fellowship in a civil rights organization.
Image: NAACP Logo (ABC News) —ATLANTA — The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund launched a $40 million scholarship program on Monday to support a new generation of civil rights lawyers, dedicated to pursuing racial justice across the South. With that whopping gift from a single anonymous donor, the fund plans to put 50 students through law schools around the.
The LDF’s mission is to “achieve racial justice, equality, and an inclusive society.” The organization says it works to protect voting rights, ensure equal access to education, and policing and criminal justice fairness.