Now more than ever before
supporting this worK matters
MOVING POWERFULLY FORWARD
PRESIDENT BETTY ANDREWS ELECTED TO NAACP NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS
REPRESENTING THE 10-STATE MIDWESTERN REGION (REGION IV)
Legal Redress Committee
Co-Chairs: Prof. Russell Lovell & Dean David Walker
Drake University Law School (Emeritus)
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Priority Areas
Resources
Systemic Discrimination
Jury Pool Diversification
Supporting Legislative Action
Anti Racial Profiling
Ban the Box
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Lovell & Walker Drake Law Review Articles
re NAACP Civil Rights Work
ACHIEVING FAIR CROSS-SECTIONS ON IOWA JURIES IN THE POST-PLAIN WORLD: THE LILLY–VEAL–WILLIAMS TRILOGY
https://lawreviewdrake.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/lovell-walker-final.pdf.
A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL FREE FROM RACIAL DISCRIMINATION WILL REQUIRE AN ACROSS-THE-BOARD APPROACH:
SYSTEMIC REFORMS STILL NEEDED IN LIGHT OF THE “OTHER” RACIAL JUSTICE JURY TRIAL RULINGS IN STATE V. VEAL & STATE V. WILLIAMS
Accomplishments
Advocacy & Education, Successes & Setbacks
NAACP's Russell Lovell Receives Notre Dame's Putz Award
For His Outstanding Dedication to Advancing Civil Rights
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Events
“I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.”
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- Thurgood Marshall