by Don Owens | Aug 9, 2020 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
August 9, 2020 Dear Friends, Supporters, and Allies for Racial Justice: As some of you may be aware, in recent months a unionizing effort has been underway at the Lawyers’ Committee. Throughout our 57-year history, the Lawyers’ Committee has defended the right...
by Stanley Augustin | Feb 11, 2020 | Letters from the Executive Director
October 17, 2019 Ronna Romney McDaniel Chair of the Republican National Committee Republican National Committee (RNC) 310 First Street, SE Washington, DC 20003 Re: Deceptive Census Mailers Commissioned by the Republican Party Mailed to Residents of Montana Dear Ms....
by Stanley Augustin | Apr 3, 2014 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
Published in: Morgan State University Global Journalism Review Issue 02/Winter2014By: Barbara R. ArnwineClick here for full publication After decades of struggling for the enactment of transformative anti discrimination laws, the landmark Civil Rights Act was...
by Stanley Augustin | Apr 3, 2014 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
First of an all-star series of 20 op-editorial commentaries: “The State of Equality and Justice in America” in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. As we celebrate the arrival of 2013, it is...
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...