2011 Legal Defense Fund Scholars
Posted By The Editors | August 12th, 2011 (2 hours ago) | Category: Education | No Comments »
Print This PostIn 1954—following more than twenty years of litigation—the United States Supreme Court declared the doctrine of “separate but equal” unconstitutional. Shortly thereafter, previously segregated public colleges and universities across the nation began admitting African-American students eager to pursue their academic dreams.
In order to secure the hard won gains of its watershed legal precedent, LDF created the Herbert Lehman Education Fund (the “Lehman Fund”) and the Legal Internship and Fellowship Program (the “Fellowship Program”) in 1964 to provide financial assistance to those who had been denied access to higher education for generations. Through their scholarship awards,