Our Work

Our Work is Movement Lawyering

Read about one of our cases in court

Our submissions to the Supreme Court, federal, state and local judiciaries have had a positive impact.

Our student attorneys presented at a Human Rights Tribunal

The Movement Lawyering Clinical students examined witnesses at the People's Tribunal before United Nations jurists in New York.

We Charge Genocide

Our work is at the intersection of civil rights, human rights and justice.

The Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center fuels social change by fostering collaboration between law, policy, scholarship, and grassroots organizing because social change intersects legal scholarship, connection to communities, and justice through action and activism.

We advance civil rights and human rights law by providing direct litigation support and rigorous policy research.
We shape public discourse on racial equality by providing a platform for scholarship and debate on cutting edge civil rights issues.
We provide a launchpad for activists to help ensure grassroots organizing stands at the forefront of the burgeoning modern civil rights movement.
The issues that we work on could include Criminal Justice; Human, Civil, and Constitutional Rights Criminal Justice; Racial Justice; UN & PAD: UN Decade, CERD, UN Forum; Environmental Justice; and Justice & Law.
The tools we use to engage that work include amicus briefs, reports, legislative research projects, conferences and events, litigation, and a myriad of activities.

Resources

Resource	Topic
A Growing Dilemma - How Police Brutality Affects Mental Health in the Black Communities	Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Racial Justice
A Growing Dilemma: Police Violence, Mental Health, and Black Communities	Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Racial Justice
Amicus Brief in Support of Marcus Mitchell for 2016 Dakota Pipeline Demonstration	Criminal Justice Reform, Police Violence
Amicus Brief in Support of Marcus Mitchell for 2016 Dakota Pipeline Demonstration	Constitutional Justice, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice
Amicus Brief on First Step Act	Criminal Justice Reform, Mass Incarceration
Amicus Brief on First Step Act	Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Racial Justice
Banning the Caged Bird: Prison Book Censorship Across America	Criminal Justice Reform, Mass Incarceration
Banning the Caged Bird: Prison Book Censorship Across America	Criminal Justice, Racial Justice
Beyond Symbol: Culture + Reparations	Human Rights, Racial Justice
Brief of Amicus Curiae National Conference of Black Lawyers	Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Racial Justice
Building on the Shoulders of Environmental Justice Giants	Environmental Justice
Catalyst for Racial Justice	Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Racial Justice
Challenge to Curfews Imposed by D.C. Mayor	The First Amendment
Challenge to Curfews Imposed by D.C. Mayor	Constitutional, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice
Constitutionality of Redressing Harms in Evanston, Illinois	Criminal Justice, Racial Justice
CRT Hotline	Racial Justice
CRT Hotline	Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice
Deray Mckensson A.B.	Civil Rights, Constitutional Rights, Human Rights
End of Year Reports	End of Year Reports
Ezralee Kelley A.B.	Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Racial Justice
Gamble Amicus Brief	Criminal Justice Reform, Mass Incarceration
Gamble Amicus Brief	Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Racial Justice
Harvard Law - Howard Law Systemic Justice Project	Campaigns
Harvard Law - Howard Law Systemic Justice Project	Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Racial Justice
Impact of Segregation - Research Study for Evanston	Reparations

Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center

Our work involves issues around human rights, civil rights, and justice.

Our Work is Movement Lawyering

Read about one of our cases in court

Our student attorneys presented at a Human Rights Tribunal

Our work is at the intersection of civil rights, human rights and justice.

Resources

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