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"...to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests."

The National Lawyers Guild is dedicated to the need for basic and progressive change in the structure of our political and economic system. Through its members -- lawyers, law students, jailhouse lawyers, and legal workers united in chapters and committees -- the Guild works locally, nationally and internationally as an effective political and social force in the service of the people.

Our aims:
. to eliminate racism;
. to safeguard and strengthen the rights of workers, women, farmers and minority groups, upon whom the welfare of the entire nation depends;
. to maintain and protect our civil rights and liberties in the face of persistent attacks upon them;
. to use the law as an instrument for the protection of the people, rather than for their repression.



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Judge Hubert T. Delaney
1901 - 1990
A National Lawyers Guild Luminary

Hubert T. Delaney (far right), more than a decade before the founding of the Guild, with Harlem Renaissance luminaries Langston Hughes, Charles S. Johnson, & Rudolph Fisher. (1924 photo, Regina Andrews collection)


  • Persecuted during the red-scares
  • Judge
  • Investigated the 1935 New York race riots upon order from the Mayor of New York.
  • "The Knickerbocker Case," 1949
  • J.D., New York University Law School, 1926
  • Harlem Renaissance contemporary
  • Practiced with the law offices of George J. Mintzer
  • Memorialized with a City College of New York (CUNY) School of Education scholarship in his name, awarded to a student who achieves a 3.0 GPA and is a resident of the greater Harlem neighborhood.