Close Window Civil Rights Archive  Archived Press Releases Date ADL Welcomes Senate Judiciary Hearings On Racial Profiling; Calls For Efforts To Protect Minority Communities 04/17/12 ADL Hails New Jersey Marriage Equality Vote, Urges Governor Christie To Sign Bill Into Law 02/16/12 The Anti-Defamation League Hails Court Decision Affirming Perry v. Brown 02/07/12 ADL Commends U.S. Justice Department Report Finding Systemic Civil Rights Violations by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office 12/16/11 ADL Applauds U.S. Action To Protect LGBT Rights Abroad 12/06/11 ADL and Broad Religious Coalition File Brief Opposing Part of the 'Defense of Marriage Act' 11/03/11 Interfaith Coalition Welcomes Decision Allowing Georgia Mosque Expansion 08/17/11 Summer Law Associates Provide Pro Bono Research To ADL On Key Civil Rights Issues 07/20/11 ADL Welcomes Senate Hearings on Repeal of Discriminatory "Defense Of Marriage Act" 07/20/11 ADL Applauds Court Decision to Delay Implementation of Controversial Provisions in Georgia Immigration Law 06/27/11 ADL Applauds Passage of Marriage Equality Act in New York State 06/25/11 Interfaith Coalition Welcomes Dismissal of Claims Seeking to Block Tennessee Mosque 05/23/11 ADL Welcomes U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Commitment to Address Bullying 05/13/11 Interfaith Coalition Acts to Protect Rights of Georgia Mosque 05/03/11 ADL Applauds Ninth Circuit Decision Blocking Key Provisions of SB 1070 04/11/11 ADL Joins State Task Force in Albany to Begin Implementing New Anti-Bullying Law 04/06/11 Federal Government Has An Important Role In Assessing and Addressing Anti-Muslim Bigotry 03/29/11 ADL: Serious Examination of Homegrown Threat Needed, But Homeland Security Hearings Raise Concerns 03/09/11 Interfaith Coalition Acts In Support of Georgia Mosque 03/08/11 ADL Adopts Resolution to Oppose Lawmakers' Efforts to Deny 14th Amendment Citizenship Rights 02/14/11 ADL Applauds Governor Quinn for Signing Monumental Civil Unions Bill Into Law 01/31/11 Interfaith Coalition Urges Temecula, CA City Council To Reject Bigotry, Approve Mosque 01/20/11 ADL Hails Historic Repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' 12/20/10 Senate Rejection of DREAM Act Fails All Our Children 12/20/10 ADL Hails House Passage Of Dream Act; Urges Senate Action 12/09/10 Interfaith Coalition Welcomes Decision Turning Back Attempt To Block Tennessee Mosque Construction 11/18/10 ADL Files Amicus Brief Urging Appeals Court to Uphold Finding of Proposition 8 as Unconstitutional 10/26/10 ICOM Acts Against Lawsuit Intended to Stop Tennessee Mosque 09/27/10 ADL Hails New York's Enactment of Broad Anti-Bullying Legislation 09/08/10 Interfaith Coalition To Assist American Muslim Communities Facing Opposition In Building Mosques 09/07/10 ADL Hails Court Decision Overturning Proposition 8 08/04/10 Statement On Islamic Community Center Near Ground Zero 07/28/10 ADL Welcomes Decision Blocking Key Provisions of Arizona Immigration Law 07/28/10 ADL Welcomes Justice Department Suit Against Arizona Anti-Immigration Law 07/06/10 ADL Applauds NY Senate's Passage of 'Dignity For All Students' Act 06/22/10 ADL Files Brief Opposing 'Misguided' Arizona Immigration Law 06/22/10 ADL Welcomes Gov. Paterson's Effort to Ensure Civil Rights Protections For All Students 06/18/10 ADL Issues Call For Civility In Public Discourse Urges Elected Leaders, Public Figures To Sign Pledge 05/03/10 ADL Laments Arizona Governor Brewer's Decision to Sign SB 1070 into Law 04/23/10 ADL Mourns The Passing Of Dr. Dorothy Height, "American Hero" Of Civil Rights Movement 04/20/10 ADL Mourns The Passing Of Dr. Benjamin Hooks 04/16/10 ADL Urges Education Secretary To Protect Jewish Students On Campus From Intimidation And Harassment 03/17/10 ADL Denounces Sheriff's Choice of Kris Kobach to Train Deputies on Immigration Law 02/09/10 ADL Hails Missouri Supreme Court Decision On Juror Bias 02/09/10 Percy Sutton's Legacy Of Attaining Equal Rights For All Lives On 01/07/10 ADL Petitions Court In Security Clearance Case Of A Jewish Civilian Employee Of The U.S. Army 10/14/09 ADL Urges U.S. Senate to Pursue 'Comprehensive and Fair' Immigration Policy 10/08/09 ADL Welcomes House Hearings On Trailblazing Workplace Protection Legislation 09/23/09 ADL Calls For Justice Dept. Review Of Religious Discrimination In Faith-Based Initiative 09/17/09 ADL Offers Recommendations to Counter Anti-Immigrant Atmosphere in Suffolk County 09/10/09 ADL Summer Associates Program Offers An Inside Look At Today's Civil Rights Issues 08/25/09 ADL Congratulates The NAACP On Their Centennial Convention 07/16/09 ADL Welcomes Supreme Court Decision To Leave Voting Rights Act In Place 06/22/09 ADL Dismayed By California Supreme Court Decision to Uphold Proposition 8 05/26/09 ADL Supports Obama Proposal to Rescind Discriminatory Health Care Practice 04/06/09 ADL Joins Martin Luther King Jr. Day Of Service With Challenge To Combat Prejudice 01/15/09 ADL: U.S. Dept. of Health Rule Could Deny Women Vital Health Services 12/18/08 ADL Welcomes Massachusetts Court Decision Protecting an Employee's Religious Freedom 12/04/08 Poll: Concerns About Racial Tensions Decline Sharply In America 11/13/08 ADL Hails Enactment Of Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act 10/10/08 ADL Praises the FBI and DOJ for the Successful Prosecution of Christopher Szaz on Federal Civil Rights Charges 10/02/08 ADL Applauds New Law to Protect Persons With Disabilities 09/25/08 ADL Joins Broad Coalition Opposing DC Gun Bill 09/23/08 ADL Welcomes the Rescheduling of Edison Vote 08/19/08 ADL Submits Policy Priorities to Democratic and Republican Platform Committees 07/21/08 New Group Formed to Demonize Immigrants 07/10/08 ADL Welcomes Supreme Court Decision Upholding Employee's Right To Sue In Racism Case 05/27/08 ADL Welcomes California Supreme Court Decision In Support Of Same-Sex Marriage 05/15/08 ADL Urges Appeals Court To Hold Hazleton Anti-Immigrant Ordinance Unconstitutional 04/18/08 ADL Welcomes Oregon Court Ruling in Circumcision Case 01/28/08 ADL Urges Candidates To Keep Debate On Immigration Policy "Respectful" 12/17/07 ADL Honors Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham With First Amendment Freedoms Prize 11/05/07 Anti-Immigrant Groups Borrow From Playbook Of Hate Groups To Demonize Hispanics 10/23/07 ADL Calls on Presidential Candidates to Keep Emphasis on Religion Out of Campaign 10/16/07 Initiative on Immigrant Rights Passed by California State Senate 08/31/07 ADL Program Challenges Law Firm Summer Associates with Research on Key Civil Rights Issues 08/20/07 ADL Applauds Overturning of Hazleton Illegal Immigration Ordinance 07/26/07 ADL Says Failure Of Immigration Reform Bill "An Enormous Setback" For America 06/28/07 ADL Lauds House Passage Of Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act 06/22/07 ADL Welcomes Bipartisan Agreement On Immigration Reform 05/18/07 Immigration Issues, Global Anti-Semitism And Israel Top Agenda of ADL National Meeting in Washington, DC 05/08/07 ADL Hails House Approval Of Federal Hate Crimes Legislation 05/03/07 Senator Kennedy Issues Call For Meaningful Immigration Reform 05/01/07 ADL Disappointed With Supreme Court Ruling On Partial Birth Abortion Act 04/19/07 L.A. Area Organizations Issue Declaration For Human Rights For Immigrants 12/13/06 ADL Gets Firsthand Look At U.S. Border Security And Immigration Issues on Mission to Phoenix, AZ 12/11/06 ADL Urges Supreme Court To Uphold Seattle And Louisville School Desegregation Plans 10/09/06 House Action to Limit First Amendment Protections "Hostile to Religious Freedom" 09/27/06 ADL Deeply Disappointed In House Vote On Voter ID Bill 09/20/06 ADL Welcomes House Rejection Of Same-Sex Marriage Amendment 07/18/06 ADL Hails House Action to Reauthorize Historic Voting Rights Act; Urges Senate to Act Without Delay 07/14/06 ADL Welcomes Demise Of Same-Sex Marriage Amendment; Expresses 'Dismay' At Senate Vote 06/07/06 ADL Welcomes Senate Immigration Reform Bill 05/26/06 ADL Calls for Comprehensive Immigration Reform 02/15/06 Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Remembered: Curriculum Stresses Her Legacy 11/07/05 Reauthorized Patriot Act Measured Response to Threat of Terrorism 07/22/05 ADL Opens Dialogue with U.S. Attorney General 06/22/05 ADL Welcomes Conviction of Ex-Klansman in 1964 Civil Rights Murders 06/21/05 Removal of Air Force Accountability Language in Defense Appropriations Bill Sends the Wrong Message 06/21/05 ADL Welcomes Supreme Court Decision Upholding Religious Accommodation Statute 05/31/05 ADL Welcomes Congress' Move To Expand Hate Crimes Legislation 05/26/05 ADL Urges Senate to Protect Refugees Fleeing Persecution 04/13/05 ADL Urges Investigation Into Alameda County Jury Selection Practices 03/29/05 ADL Welcomes Arrest of Klansman in 1964 Murders of Civil Rights Activists 01/07/05 ADL Criticizes House Approval of ‘Marriage Protection Act Of 2004’ 07/22/04 Senators Urged To Vote Against Gay Marriage Ban 07/13/04 ADL Submits Policy Priorities to Democratic and Republican Platform Committees 06/29/04 ADL Welcomes Senate Approval of Federal Hate Crimes Law 06/15/04 ADL Urges House Committee Members to Reject Amendment Allowing Houses of Worship to Endorse Candidates 06/09/04 Brown v. Board of Education 50 Year Legacy Celebrated With Online Curriculum for High School Students 04/29/04 ADL Applauds Massachusetts Supreme Court Ruling on Gay Marriage 11/18/03 Renowned Attorney, Floyd Abrams, Honored With ADL Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize 11/07/03 Senate Passage of Abortion Bill Curtails a Woman's Right to Choose 10/21/03 ADL Commends House Action to Condemn Bias-Motivated Violence 10/07/03 ADL Disappointed in House Vote Approving Vouchers for DC Schools 09/10/03 Statement on Sentencing of Lemrick Nelson in Rosenbaum Murder 08/21/03 California Proposition 54 Harmful for a Diverse California 08/07/03 ADL Urges House of Representatives to Consider Resolution Protecting Arabs, South Asians, Muslims and Sikhs 07/30/03 ADL Hails 11th Circuit Court Of Appeals Ruling on Ten Commandments Monument in Alabama 07/02/03 Crown Height Verdict: A Disappointing Compromise 05/14/03 ADL Welcomes Supreme Court Decision Upholding Virginia State Ban on Cross Burning 04/07/03 ADL Takes Issue With Religious Safeguard Rules in New Federal Faith-Based Initiative 02/20/03 ADL Urges Congressman Coble To Apologize For Remarks Supporting Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II 02/07/03 ADL Urges Supreme Court to Support Diversity in Higher Education But Not Through Racial Preferences 01/15/03 ADL Urges Los Angeles I.N.S. to Ensure Compliance With Civil Rights Laws 12/20/02 ADL Urges President Bush to Reconsider Executive Order on Faith-Based Initiatives 12/12/02 ADL Calls on New York State Legislature to Re-Draft Anti-Mask Law 11/20/02 ADL Applauds Federal Court Ruling on Ten Commandments Monument in Alabama 11/18/02 ADL Offers Tips to Public Libraries for Responding to Extremist Groups 11/14/02 ADL Hails Defeat of House Bill That Would Have Permitted Religious Institutions to Endorse Elected Officials 10/02/02 ADL Welcomes Cook County Sheriff's Reversal on Religious Head Covering Prohibition 07/08/02 ADL Commends Department of Justice for Seeking "Meaningful and Serious" Punishment Against Lemrick Nelson 07/02/02 ADL Welcomes A Federal Court of Appeals Decision Regarding Online Threats 05/16/02 ADL Calls Bush Administration Military Commission Guidelines 'A Significant Step Forward' 03/25/02 ADL Calls White House Compromise Faith-Based Measure 'A Welcome Improvement' Calls For Congressional Protection of Religious Liberty 02/07/02 ADL Urges Justice Dept. to Pursue Charges in Crown Heights Murder 01/14/02 ADL Outraged by Reports of Bigotry and Prejudice at Three Colleges; Says It Highlights The Need for Anti-Bias Education, Applauds Actions of Auburn University President 11/16/01 ADL Calls New Justice Department Report on Hate Crimes 'A Valuable Look at Bias' 10/01/01 ADL Supports President Bush's Call for War on Terrorism 09/17/01 ADL Urges Support for Workplace Protections for Gays and Lesbians 07/31/01 ADL Welcomes Cook County Sheriff's Reversal on Religious Head Covering Prohibition 7/8/02 ADL Disappointed With House Passage Of Flawed "Charitable Choice" Legislation, Calls On Senate To Reject The Measure 7/19/01 ADL Says House Committee’s Changes to Charitable Choice Legislation are "Largely Cosmetic" 6/29/01 ADL Celebrates Flushing Remonstrance: Precursor to First Amendment by More than One Hundred Years 6/7/01 ADL to President Bush: Remark Raises New Concerns About Faith-Based Plan 5/25/01 ADL Praises Renewed Congressional Effort to Expand Hate Crimes Legislation 3/27/01 ADL Supports Civil Rights Challenge to Alabama English-Only Testing 12/18/00 ADL Applauds Enactment of Religious Freedom Bill 9/22/00 ADL Asks Supreme Court to Reaffirm Constitutional Basis for Civil Rights Laws 9/20/00 ADL to Senator Lieberman: Keep Emphasis on Religion Out of Campaign 8/28/00 ADL Calls on Democrats and Republicans to Give High Priority to Civil Rights Concerns at Respective Conventions 7/6/00 ADL Says South Carolina’s Failure to Establish a Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday is a Setback to Civil Rights 3/3/00 target="_top">Extremist David Duke to Announce New "Civil Rights" Group in Washington, D.C. 1/19/00 ADL Calls on House of Representatives to Reject Misnamed "Religious Freedom" Amendment 9/15/99 ADL Dismayed by Kansas Board of Education Decision to Cease Teaching Evolution 8/27/99 ADL Calls for Mississippi School Board to Reverse Ban on Wearing Star of David 8/23/99 ADL Mourns Passing of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. 7/26/99 ADL Applauds House Passage of Religious Freedom Bill 7/16/99 ADL Supports Call for Swift Investigation of Incidents of Apparent Police Brutality 2/25/99 ADL Disappointed in Supreme Court Decision Not to Hear Voucher Case 11/9/98 ADL Dismayed By Supreme Court Decision Not To Hear Religion In School Case 6/26/98 ADL Welcomes Supreme Court's Rejection Of Governor's Misguided Appeal 6/22/98 ADL Welcomes International Religious Freedom Act 6/17/98 ADL ISSUE BRIEF: "Religious Freedom" Amendment (H.J.Res. 78) 6/3/98 ADL Calls On House Of Representatives To Reject Misnamed "Religious Freedom" Amendment 6/2/98 ADL Joins Brief Asking Supreme Court To Hear Case In School Religion Controversy 5/29/98 ADL Welcomes Law School Deans’ Call To Congress To Defeat Istook Amendment 5/29/98 ADL Tells U.S. Commission On Civil Rights Religious Coercion In Public Schools Threatens To Undermine Values Of American Democracy 5/20/98 ADL Says Alabama Governor’s Call To Defy Federal Authority Subverts Fundamental Tenets Of American Democracy 5/8/98 ADL On Capitol Hill: Istook "Religious Freedom Amendment" Is Religious Coercion In Disguise 4/30/98 ADL Calls On Judiciary Committee Members To Reject Misnamed "Religious Freedom" Amendment 3/3/98 ADL Urges Appeals Court To Review Decision In Religion In Schools Case 1/7/98 ADL Joins Fight Against Religious Persecution Worldwide 7/2/97 ADL Disappointed By Supreme Court Ruling On Religious Freedom Restoration Act 6/25/97 ADL:supremem Court Decision On Public Aid To Parochial Schools Could Lead To A Slippery Slope On Church-state Separation 6/23/97 ADL Applauds Jury's Decision in Crown Heights Trial 2/10/97 ADL Calls Adoption of English Only Legislation "Unnecessary and Divisive" 8/01/96 ADL Calls on Congress to Uphold Religious Liberty and Reject Misnamed "Religious Equality Amendment" 7/23/96 ADL Joins Religious Groups to Oppose Misnamed "Religious Equality Amendment" 7/22/96 ADL/Urban League Present $100,000 to Head of National Bank Churches to Distribute to Arson Victims 7/17/96 ADL Calls On Democrats And Republicans To Give High Priority To Civil Rights Concerns At Respective Conventions 7/12/96 ADL Hails Supreme Court's Decision on Admission of Women to Virginia Military Institute 6/26/96 ADL Sets Up Fund To Rebuild Black Churches Destroyed By Arson 6/13/96 ADL Acts in Response to Black Church Arsons: Commends President's Initiative on Fires that 'Burn at the Fabric of This Country' 6/11/96 ADL: Supreme Court Striking Down Colorado Anti-Gay Amendment is a Landmark Decision 5/20/96 ADL Denounces "Homecoming Rally" for Officer Who Beat Rodney King 2/22/96 ADL Updates Guide on Religion in Public Schools 1/05/96 ADL Urges Department of Justice to Undertake Investigation Into Racially and Religiously Motiviated Assault in Harlem 12/20/95 Black-Jewish Relations, Affirmative Action on ADL Agenda 11/29/95 ADL Calls on Congress to Reject Religious Equaltiy Amendment and Uphold Religious Liberty 11/16/95 Beckwith Conviction Should Be Upheld, Says ADL Amicus Brief 7/31/95 ADL Encouraged by Equal Opportunity Act 7/28/95 ADL Lauds Clinton Initiative on School Prayer 7/12/95 ADL Disappointed With Court's UVA Publication Decision 6/29/95 Court's Klan Decision Disappoints ADL 6/29/95 Court's Decison on Georgia's Redistricting Case Welcomed by ADL 6/29/95 ADL Joins Coalition Urging Supreme Court to Reject Colorado's Anti- Gay Amendment 6/22/95 ADL Disappointed with Supreme Court Decision Prohibiting Gay and Lesbian Group from Marching in Boston's St. Patricks's Day Parade 6/19/95 ADL Calls on Congress to Uphold Religious Liberty and Reject "Religious Equality Amendment" 5/17/95 Religion in Our Nation's Public Schools Background Information from ADL 5/11/95 Brief Urges Supreme Court to Let Gays and Lesbians March in Boston's St. Patrick's Day Parade 4/07/95 ADL Files Amicus In Supreme Court Voting Rights Case 3/31/95 ADL Joins Amicus Filed in KKK Cross Case 3/15/95 Close Window