About this Project
One of the cornerstones of the civil rights revolution was the belief that legal rights required legal remedies and that enforcement of these rights was a necessary component to the realization of the dream of equality.
However, in recent years there has been a retreat from ensuring that our legal infrastructure provides effective remedies and access to the courts for civil rights plaintiffs, a weakening of civil rights enforcement by the federal government, and an increased politicization of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
And, most troubling, this rollback of civil rights has occurred largely without the attention or understanding of most Americans. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the nation's oldest, largest, and most diverse civil rights coalition, and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund, the research and education arm of the civil rights coalition, initiated this Civil Rights Enforcement Education Campaign to enhance awareness of this critical set of issues and to further the understanding that rights without remedies are not rights at all.
