Aug 30, 2020 | News Releases, PP Voting Rights, Public Policy, Public Policy Access to Justice, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
LOS ANGELES – Fifty years ago, thousands of peaceful protesters took to the streets of East Los Angeles to draw attention to the disproportionately high number of Mexican Americans drafted and killed in the Vietnam War and the fight for Latino civil rights. The rally...
Aug 27, 2020 | News Releases, PP Voting Rights, Public Policy
LOS ANGELES, CA – On Women’s Equality Day, the nation commemorates the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote. However, when the amendment was ratified 100 years ago, the same barriers – Jim Crow laws, English-only ballots,...
Aug 20, 2020 | News Releases
LOS ANGELES, CA – MALDEF mourns the passing of former board member Grace Montañez Davis, who died at age 93 earlier this week. In 1975, Davis became the first Mexican American woman to serve as deputy mayor of Los Angeles. An activist for Latino civil rights, Davis...
Aug 14, 2020 | Court Cases Education, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases, Plyler v. Doe
LOS ANGELES, CA – A Latino civil rights group warned two Arizona school districts on Friday that enrollment forms seeking information about citizenship status violate the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that guarantees every child the right to a public K-12...
Aug 13, 2020 | Census, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases, Voting Rights
Greenbelt, MD – Civil rights groups are expanding an ongoing 2019 federal lawsuit to include claims against the Trump administration’s unprecedented attempt to cut short the 2020 Census and to exclude some individuals from the data used for apportionment. MALDEF...
