Legal Redress Committee
Co-Chairs: Prof. Russell Lovell & Dean David Walker
Drake University Law School (Emeritus)
Priority Areas
Resources
Systemic Discrimination
Jury Pool Diversification
Supporting Legislative Action
Anti Racial Profiling
Ban the Box
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
2024 NAACP Public Comment to NE Jury Qualification Form and Proposed Rules
NAACP Table of Contents for Public Comment to NE Jury Qualification Form and Proposed Rules
NAACP Public Comment to NE Jury Qualification Form and Proposed Rules
Appendix II. A-Jan - Dec 2023 Iowa Jury Data All 99 Counties
Appendix II. B-Jan-Dec 2023 Iowa Jury Data Largest Pop Counties Blacks
Appendix II. C-Jan - Dec 2023 Iowa Jury Large Counties Hispanic
Appendix IV. A-NAACP Proposed REVISIONS on Questionnaire Form itself
Appendix IV. B-NAACP Edits Proposed Questionnaire Form Image
History of the Des Moines Fire Fighters Civil Rights Case
Accomplishments
Advocacy & Education, Successes & Setbacks
NAACP's Russell Lovell Receives Notre Dame's Putz Award
For His Outstanding Dedication to Advancing Civil Rights
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.”
- Thurgood Marshall