HONORABLE LLOYD A. BARBEE INTAKE AND LEGAL REVIEW INITIATIVE

Purpose:

The City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County as well the 72 Counties that make up South-Eastern Wisconsin, are predisposed to disparate systemic discriminatory patterns that are egregious and must be properly confronted and sincerely dealt with in measures that will bring about healthy communities for people of color.

Main Goals:

The goals of the Lloyd A. Barbee Foundation, Inc. initiative are to work to help bring about healthy communities that consist of equal opportunities and fair treatment in education, employment, the justice system, housing, and health care.

  •   To build a network of legal resources to assist the needy, disfranchised, indigent, and the poor with their encounters with the court system, filing legitimate complaints, and understanding guidelines that must be followed as a result their involvement and/or engagement activities require legal services.

  • To establish a central location for needy, disfranchised, indigent, and the poor to gain assistance on an as needed basis employing volunteers, undergraduate and graduate college students to gain experiences working with the public to enhance their legal knowledge and experiences.

  • To establish clinical assistance days where people in the City of Milwaukee can come and get legal help and/or assistance pro bono surrounding their legal issues affecting family, friends or themselves.


ABSTRACT

Lawyers, paralegal and law student volunteers under the supervision of a hired attorney by the NAACP Milwaukee Branch to provide one-on-one sessions with those in need of legal assistance.  Clients will also be referred where appropriate when call-ins are made for 30-minute legal advice sessions.  The hired attorney will be used to help those with cases that require legal assistance that in some instance’s attorneys refuse based on protocol with the city, county or state.  The attorney hired will also be aligned with the National NAACP Legal Defense Fund.  We seek to help implement the Every Student Succeeds Act Obama 2015, work with the National Chamber of Commerce to help curb the Pipeline from School to Prison, The Greater Milwaukee foundation from Cradle to Career, and with the "At Risk Student Population"  (Wis. Stats. 118.15), moving them from "At Risk to At Potential."

FUNDING

Three (3) Million Dollars which will cover costs of filing fees, insurances, equipment to be used for office purposes, office space, and technology that will be housed at the office location.

Contact Person: 

Clarence P. Nicholas, President

Cell: 414-507-8130

Email: cnicholas12@wi.rr.com

Latest Projects

Amos et al. v. Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee

On June 17, 1965, Milwaukee attorney and state Assemblyman Lloyd Barbee filed a federal lawsuit, Amos et

al. v. ... While it is true that Milwaukee's neighborhoods were racially segregated, the use of a neighborhood

school policy resulted in a corresponding segregation of the schools.

Also see United States District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin filed February 8, 1979

Findings of Fact Conclusions of Law, and Decision and order Civil Action N0. 65-C-173

  • "(A) Any student desiring to attend a "desegregated"; school as defined in II (D) shall have the right to do so, and defendants shall annually advise all students in writing of this right."

  • "The United States Supreme Court has made it quite clear that there is no substantive constitutional right to a particular degree of racial balance or mixing. Milliken v. Bradley, 433 U.S. 267, 280 fn. 15, [97 S. Ct. 2749, 53 L. Ed. 2d 745]."

  • "* * * are hereby permanently enjoined from discriminating upon the basis of race in the operation of the public schools of the City of Milwaukee with respect to any matter which was the subject of this litigation."