The Lawyers' Committee and PRRAC

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (“Lawyers’ Committee”) is a nonprofit civil rights organization founded in 1963 by the leaders of the American Bar, at the request of President John F. Kennedy, to help defend the civil rights of racial minorities and the poor. For over fifty years, the Lawyers’ Committee has been at the forefront of many of the most significant cases involving race and national origin discrimination. The Lawyers’ Committee and its affiliates have litigated numerous claims under the Fair Housing Act. They have seen firsthand how cases brought pursuant to the Fair Housing Act are essential to meeting the Act’s central goal of integrating American communities.

The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (“PRRAC”) is a civil rights policy organization based in Washington, D.C., committed to bringing the insights of social science research to the fields of civil rights and poverty law. PRRAC’s housing work focuses on the government’s role in creating and perpetuating patterns of racial and economic segregation, the long term consequences of segregation for low-income families of color in the areas of health, education, employment, and economic mobility, and the government policies that are necessary to remedy these disparities.

Citi Community Development is providing invaluable support for this important event.