NAACP Legal Defense And Educational Fund
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (NAACP LDF, the Inc. Fund, or simply LDF) is a leading United States civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City.
The organization can trace its origins to the legal department of the NAACP that was created by Charles Hamilton Houston in the 1930s. In 1939, however, LDF was spun off from the NAACP and, in 1957, Thurgood Marshall, Houston's student and the future U.S. Supreme Court Justice, established LDF as a new organization totally independent of the NAACP.
John Payton served as LDF's 6th director-counsel and president from 2008 until his death in March, 2012.
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