How have various defense funds worked for rights for minority groups?

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anonymous · Answer

do you mean after the civil war?

anonymous · Answer

i think so

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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.

anonymous · Answer

The organization can trace its origins to the legal department of the NAACP that was created by Charles Hamilton Houston in the 1930s

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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

anonymous · Answer

does that work?