The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL), is an American

United States

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 association, formed in 1968, to serve as the Black Liberation movement’s legal arm and aid other black activists, it is made up of judge

Judge

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s, law students

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, lawyers, legal activists, legal workers, and scholars.

Noted clients included, Angela Davis

Angela Davis

Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. Davis was most politically active during the late 1960s through the 1970s and was associated with the Communist Party USA, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party...

, Assata Shakur

Assata Shakur

Assata Olugbala Shakur is an African-American activist and escaped convict who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army...

, the Attica Brothers, Geronimo Pratt

Geronimo Pratt

Geronimo Ji Jaga , also known as Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt born: Elmer Pratt, was a high ranking member of the Black Panther Party...

, Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner and sentenced to death. He has been described as "perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate", and his sentence is one of the most debated today...

, the Ben Chavis

Benjamin Chavis Muhammad

Benjamin Chavis is an African American civil rights leader. Dr. Chavis was born Benjamin Franklin Chavis, Jr. on January 22, 1948 in Oxford, North Carolina. In his youth, Dr. Chavis was an assistant to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who inspired him to work in the civil rights movement. Dr...

 and the Wilmington Ten

Wilmington Ten

The Wilmington Ten were a group of civil rights activists who spent nearly a decade in jail after being convicted of arson and conspiracy in 1971. The case became an international cause celebre amidst widespread beliefs that the individuals in the case were only guilty of holding dissenting...

. The organization lobbied against apartheid in South Africa

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They expanded from African-American oppression to help other groups in countries like: Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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, the Palestinian territories

Palestinian territories

The Palestinian territories comprise the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, the region is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries as the State of Palestine or simply Palestine, although this status is not recognized by the...

, Cuba

Cuba

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, Nicaragua

Nicaragua

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, Guyana

Guyana

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, Grenada

Grenada

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, and throughout Southern Africa

Southern Africa

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The group's mission is: “To protect human rights, to achieve self-determination of Africa and African Communities and to work in coalition to assist in ending oppression of all peoples.”