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LDF
Fighting for Equality and Empowerment for African-Americans and Other Disenfranchised Groups
LDF has been fighting for equality and empowerment for African-Americans and other disenfranchised groups since it was founded in 1940 under the leadership of late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. As LDF's first director-counsel, Justice Marshall led the campaign against the "separate but equal" doctrine and won the landmark 1954 case, Brown v. Board of Education, which outlawed public-school segregation and began the dismantling of all forms of government-sanctioned discrimination. Despite significant progress toward equality in the past half-century, numerous and complex obstacles remain. LDF continues its fundamental mission to transform the promise of equality into a social, economic and political reality for all people.
