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Latino civil rights organization MALDEF has sued financial institutions for allegedly discriminating against DACA recipients by denying them loans and other services based on their immigration status.
MALDEF was founded in San Antonio in 1968 under the direction of Jack Greenberg. With the help of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), MALDEF got a $2.2 million grant from the Ford Foundation. [3] The grant provided scholarships for more Mexican-American lawyers.
The Chicana Rights Project (CRP) was a feminist organization created in 1974 to address the legal rights of poor Mexican-American women. The organization was guided by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and created by Vilma Martinez.
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the largest and oldest Hispanic and Latin-American civil rights organization in the United States. [2] It was established on February 17, 1929, in Corpus Christi, Texas, largely by Hispanics returning from World War I who sought to end ethnic discrimination against Latinos in the United States.
Parents, MALDEF sue Pasadena Unified for 2019 school closures, alleging discrimination. Alejandra Reyes-Velarde. January 5, 2023 at 12:41 AM.
Hernández was accused of having a conflict of interest because the defendants' attorney, Vilma Martinez was a former head of MALDEF. [7] MALDEF received $150,000 in legal fees, and Martinez received $32,000, with the three plaintiffs receiving $8,000 each, resulting in criticism in MALDEF's management of the litigation. [7]
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