NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Remembers Judge Damon J. Keith
May 13, 2019
May 13, 2019
NEW YORK, May 13 -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund issued the following news release:
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) mourns the loss of former board member and trailblazing federal Judge Damon J. Keith, who passed away on April 28th at the age of 96. Over the course of his remarkable career, Judge Keith wrote key decisions in cases that spanned the breadth of civil rights, including rulings that made real the promises of the U.S. Supreme Court . . .
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) mourns the loss of former board member and trailblazing federal Judge Damon J. Keith, who passed away on April 28th at the age of 96. Over the course of his remarkable career, Judge Keith wrote key decisions in cases that spanned the breadth of civil rights, including rulings that made real the promises of the U.S. Supreme Court . . .