As members of the Hispanic/Latino family, we are proud of our shared history (Spanish) and culture, while at the same time recognizing our diverse and historically divergent origins in Latin America, and our individual socio-cultural frameworks.
MALDEF was founded in San Antonio, Texas, in 1968 primarily by Jack Greenberg, an attorney and legal scholar most notable for being the Director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He is probably most known for Brown v. Board of Education, which ended segregation in public schools. With his help, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the NAACP, MALDEF received a $2.2 million grant from the Ford Foundation, to scholarships to increase the number of Mexican-American lawyers in the United States. MALDEF initially focused on employment discrimination and school funding cases, and then moved into other campaigns such as the education-litigation project, which filed legal complaints on behalf of undocumented parents' children who were at the time often barred from public schools. It later branched off the create the Chicana Rights Project (CRP), which focused on Mexican-American women's unique legal issues. MALDEF has also challenged laws that required what are described as “onerous” identification requirements in order to vote.
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