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LatinoJustice PRLDEF
LatinoJustice PRLDEF, long known by its former name the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, is a New York-based national civil rights organization with the goal of changing discriminatory practices via advocacy and litigation. Privately funded, nonprofit and nonpartisan, it is part of the umbrella Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund was founded in 1972 by three lawyers, one of whom, Cesar A. Perales, became the president of the group for much of its history. PRLDEF played a key role in the installation of bilingual education in New York City schools, and soon became the most important legal advocacy group for Puerto Ricans in the U.S. mainland. The group became known for the part it played in redistricting battles, for its opposition to civil service exams it thought discriminatory, and for its attempts to combat anti-Latino sentiment especially as arising from the debate over immigration to the U.S. It changed its name to the current one in 2008 in order to reflect demographic shifts in the Latino population in New York and elsewhere.
==Origins and the 1970s==
The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund was founded in 1972 as a non-profit organization〔 by three lawyers, Jorge Batista, Victor Marrero, and Cesar A. Perales,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=About Us: Our History and Mission )〕 with Perales the fund's first president.〔 It was created as a privately funded, nonprofit and nonpartisan organization〔 with the goal of changing discriminatory practices via advocacy and litigation. It was inspired in form and purpose by the high-profile NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which Thurgood Marshall had established in 1957.〔 PRLDEF (pronounced "pearl-deaf") had $300,000 of initial funding from foundations, government sources, and private corporations. U.S. House of Representatives member Herman Badillo was on its first Board of Directors, and at the fund's initial press conference he said, "There is plenty of room for change in our society, and much can be done through the medium of class actions."〔 The organization soon grew to have a Litigation Division, a Pro Bono Cooperating Counsel Division, and an Education Division.〔 A typical staffer was a young, idealistic attorney from a premier law school.〔
The fund's first lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Hispanic educational improvement organization ASPIRA in an action against the New York City Board of Education. It led to the August 1974 ASPIRA Consent Decree, which established the right of city public school students with limited English proficiency to receive bilingual education.〔 The decree was a key factor in bilingual education spreading throughout the city school system.〔〔 It also brought about the publication of some federal and state forms in Spanish as well as English.〔 By the late 1970s, PRLDEF had become the nation's most important legal advocacy group for Puerto Ricans in the mainland.
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