NLG Mourns the Loss of Civil Rights Icons Congressman John Lewis and Rev. C.T. Vivian

Posted on July 20, 2020July 20, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: communications@nlg.org The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) mourns the passing of Congressman John Lewis and Reverend C.T. Vivian, two giants in the Civil Rights movement who devoted their entire lives to Black liberation. Both walked together across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 and suffered the blows of Sheriff Jim Clark on […]

50 Years Gone: Reflections on the JFK Assassination

Posted on November 12, 2013July 3, 2016

By David Gespass, Past NLG President Fifty years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas. For those of us who were alive and sentient back then, it was a signal event. JFK was the first of a new generation of leadership for the country, and held the promise, as it were, for […]