The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is an American coalition of more than 240 national civil and human rights organizations and acts as an umbrella group for American civil and human r
Maya Wiley (pictured in 2015) became the coalition's president and chief executive officer in 2022.
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Roy Wilkins at the White House, 30 April, 1968
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The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 is a landmark federal statute in the United States that was the first bill signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama on January 29, 2009. The act amends T
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
…which was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2009. The coalition also advocated for the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act in 2006, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, and the Fair Sentencing Act, which was signed into federal law by President Obama in 2010. The coalition's name was formally expanded to include human…
Ledbetter speaks during the second day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.
President Obama signing the Act into law; to his right is the new law's namesake, Lilly Ledbetter