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# Lawyers for Civil Rights: Advancing Equality and Justice

> Lawyers for Civil Rights works with people of color, immigrants, and low\-income communities to fight discrimination, foster equity, and pursue justice through creative and courageous legal advocacy, education, and economic empowerment\. In partnership with law firms and community allies, we provide free, life\-changing legal support to individuals, families, and small businesses\.

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- [Civil Rights Reception](https://lawyersforcivilrights.org/who-we-are/reception-2/): On June 21, 1963, President John F\. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F\. Kennedy met with 250 leading American lawyers in the East Room of the White House to discuss the role lawyers could and should play in the deepening civil rights crisis\. The nation recently had been shaken by television and news accounts of police\-led violence against peaceful demonstrations led by Dr\. Martin Luther King, Jr\., and by the spectacle of U\.S\. Army intervention to enforce court orders requiring the University of Alabama to admit Black students against a defiant Governor Wallace\. President Kennedy noted the special role that lawyers have played in the creation and maintenance of our constitutional system of government and the rule of law\. The President and Attorney General made a special appeal to the lawyers to mobilize the voice and work of the legal profession to support the struggle for civil rights in the nation\. From this meeting, the national Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law was formed\.
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## Posts
- [Statement on Supreme Court TPS Decision](https://lawyersforcivilrights.org/our-impact/immigrant-rights/statement-on-supreme-court-tps-decision/)
- [Black Students Sue Nichols College](https://lawyersforcivilrights.org/our-impact/racial-justice/black-students-sue-nichols-college/)
- [Zapatos Rojos \(Red Shoes\)](https://lawyersforcivilrights.org/our-impact/police-accountability/zapatos-rojos-red-shoes/)
- [Low Voting Rates in Jails](https://lawyersforcivilrights.org/our-impact/voting-rights/low-voting-rates-in-jails/)
- [Public Hospitals Must Help Register Voters](https://lawyersforcivilrights.org/our-impact/voting-rights/public-hospitals-must-help-register-voters/)

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- [Racial Justice](https://lawyersforcivilrights.org/our-impact/category/racial-justice/)
- [Police Accountability](https://lawyersforcivilrights.org/our-impact/category/police-accountability/)
- [Immigrant Rights](https://lawyersforcivilrights.org/our-impact/category/immigrant-rights/)
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