NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Grant



Organization - NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Grant Amount - $750,000
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - toward the costs of public education efforts, including a national symposium and the production of educational materials, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision mandating the desegregation of schools across America


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