Dec 26, 2018 | MALDEF in History
White v. Regester: MALDEF Case Helped Kill Off Mega-Voter Districts that Suppressed the Mexican American Vote Texas is a big state, and it once used big electoral districts, with multiple elected members, as a big way to suppress the Latino vote. After the Civil War,...
Dec 20, 2018 | Census, News Releases, Voting Rights
Washington, D.C. – A federal court today rejected the Trump Administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by civil rights organizations that challenges the addition of a citizenship question to Census 2020 on the grounds that it is discriminatory and...
Dec 1, 2018 | MALDEF in History, Plyler v. Doe
Plyler v. Doe Last Updated: May 17, 2022 Every child deserves a fair chance to learn and thrive. That might seem an obvious statement today, but it took years of legal battles fought by MALDEF to ensure that “every” child did not exclude any child – particularly,...
Nov 12, 2018 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Access to Justice
LOS ANGELES – Antonio Gonzalez, president of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP) and the William C. Velasquez Institute (WCVI), died on November 11 after battling cancer. As the head of both organizations for 24 years, he worked...
Nov 10, 2018 | 50th Anniversary, Events, News Releases
LOS ANGELES – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), the nation’s leading Latino legal civil rights organization, marked its 50th anniversary last night at its 2018 Los Angeles Gala, which featured honors to four award recipients for their...
