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2011March: LCLD Fellowsprogram launched
June: 1L Scholars program launched
September:Washington, DCSecond Annual Meeting
The arc of themoral universeis long, but itbends towardsjustice. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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2014March: Third Class of
LCLD Fellows graduates
May: Inaugural Leadership Summit
September: Phoenix, Arizona
Fifth Annual Meeting
2013March: Second Class ofLCLD Fellows graduates
September:Washington, DCFourth Annual Meeting
2012January:Mentoring program launched
March: First Class of LCLD Fellows graduates;Fellows Alumni formed
September: Washington, DCThird Annual Meeting
2009April 27:Founding of LCLD(Articles filed)
2008April 24-25:Scottsdale, ArizonaCall to Action Summit
The Leadership Council on Legal Diversity is an organization of morethan 200 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners—the leadership of the profession—who have dedicated themselves to creating a truly diverse US legal profession. Our action programs are designed to attract, inspire, and nurture the talent in society and withinour organizations, thereby helping a new and more diverse generation of attorneys ascend to positions of leadership. By producing tangible results in the lives of talented individuals, we work to promote inclusive-ness in our institutions, our circles of influence, and our society, with the ultimate goal of building a moreopen and diverse legal profession.
Leadership Council on Legal Diversitywww.lcldnet.org2004
A Call to Action: Diversity in the Legal Professionpublished by Rick Palmore
LCLD Milestones
2010September:
Washington, DCFirst Annual Meeting
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LCLD Fellows at MLK Monument
1L Scholars
Affordable Care Act Economic Downturn
Ban Lifted onWomen in Combat
DOMAStruck Down
Pelosi FirstWomanSpeaker of the House
LCLD Today
85Cities
220+Fortune 500and NLJ 350
91%MemberParticipation
95%MemberRetention
US Population Reaches
300,000,000First International
Day of Climate Action
350.orgNSA Leaks
It is onlywhenwe act that ourwords have value, validity,and valor.
Open
Build
Reach Lead
Act
In the five years since ourfounding, LCLD has focused on action—building real-worldprograms that prepare the nextgeneration of diverse talent for leadership of the legal pro-fession. Our members, repre-senting major corporationsand the nation’s top law firms,are dedicated to achieving diversity through leadership,action, and results.
Ebola Outbreakin Africa
Arab Spring ShuttleProgramEnds
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1776Declaration ofIndependence“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…”
1999“Diversity in the Workplace: A Statement of Principle”published(500 signatories)
2003Lawrence v. TexasInvalidates lawsagainst same-sex
activity throughoutthe United States
1990Americans with Disabilities ActOutlaws discriminationbased on disability
1981First woman justice onthe US Supreme Court
1967First black justice onthe US Supreme Court
1965Immigration and Nationality ActAbolishes the discriminatoryNational Origins Act, in place since the 1920s
1965Voting Rights Act
1954Brown v. Board of Education ofTopeka, Kansas
Overturns Plessy v. Ferguson,declaring separate education
unconstitutional
1947Mendez v.Westminster
Federal court in Californiarules that segregation of Hispanic students in
separate “Mexican” schoolsis unconstitutional
1935League of the Physically
Handicapped formedChallenges WPA job
discrimination (forms thefoundation for the
disability rights movement)
191919th AmendmentGives women theright to vote
1896Plessy v. FergusonUS Supreme Courtendorses the principal of “separate but equal”
1880Strauder v.West Virginia
US Supreme Courtupholds right of Negroes
to serve on juries
1869Howard University Legal DepartmentPrecursor toHoward Law School
186814th AmendmentOverturns Dred Scottand protects the rights of former slaves
187015th AmendmentGives blacks the right to vote
186513th AmendmentAbolishes slavery
1863EmancipationProclamationPresident Lincoln proclaims freedomof slaves in theUnited States
1857Dred Scott v. SandfordUS Supreme Court denies freed slaves citizenship
1783Commonwealth ofMassachusetts v.
Nathaniel JennisonSlavery abolishedin Massachusetts
1775
1925
1915
1905
1895
1885
1865
1855
2005
1995
1985
1975
1965
1955
US Civil War WorldWar I KoreanWar
The Great DepressionLong Depression
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1896-1957Jim Crow LawsEmboldened byPlessy v. Ferguson,southern states passlaws restricting blacks
John Mercer Langston
Charles Hamilton Houston
196 4Civil Rights Act
Sandra Day O’Connor
Thurgood Marshall
President Johnsonsigns the Civil RightsAct of 1964
Selma to MontgomeryMarch forVoting Rights
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1945
Revolutionary War .......................................................................................................
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2008First African Americanelected president ofthe United States
Barack Obama
Recession
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Statue of LibertyDedicated
Lindbergh’sTrans-Atlantic
Flight
Model T FordIntroduced
Moon Walk BerlinWall Falls
9 | 11
2009First Hispanic justice on the USSupreme Court
196 9Stonewall RiotsBeginning of theLGBTmovement
Sonia Sotomayor
Rosa Parks arrested in Montgomery, Alabama,
for refusing to give up her seat on the bus
1785 US Capital Moves
to WashingtonAlaska Purchasedfrom Russia
1909NAACP founded
1895WEB Du Bois at HarvardFirst African American
to receive a PhD
Edison LightCompany Founded
Gall audet University Founded
1931Accreditation of HowardUniversity Law SchoolFirst black law school inthe US to be accredited
Dred Scott
Up from Slavery published by BookerT. Washington
wwwWorldWideWeb
Invented
Atomic Bomb
“The earth is the mother ofall people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.”—Chief Joseph, Nez Perce tribe
1788US Constitution“We the people of the United States,in order to form a more perfect union,establish justice...”
1848Seneca Falls Convention
Calls for the end of discrimination against
all women 1924Indian Citizenship ActGrants citizenship toall Native Americans
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