ACLU of Mississippi
Because Freedom Can't Protect Itself
Nsombi A. Lambright, ACLU-MS Executive Director
Nsombi Lambright is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Mississippi. Founded in 1969, this ACLU affiliate opened its Mississippi office to represent Civil Rights Workers who were being jailed, beaten and killed for participating in demonstrations.
Under Nsombi’s leadership, the Mississippi ACLU carries out a program of public education, legislative activity, and litigation in the areas of voting rights, race and criminal justice, freedom of speech and religion and reproductive rights.
Since Hurricane Katrina, the ACLU of Mississippi has represented survivors of the storm in criminal and school disciplinary cases. The ACLU also started a project called Access To Government to help Gulf Coast citizens to hold local, state and federal government accountable to building an equitable Gulf Coast. The Mississippi ACLU is also a founding member of the Mississippi Prevention of Schoolhouse To Jailhouse Coalition, working to end the over incarceration of youth in Mississippi’s training schools and to end unfair school policies and practices that criminalize students.
One of our main projects involves reforming the state’s criminal justice system to fight for more alternatives to incarceration, more rehabilitation services for drug offenses, full restoration of voting rights for people with felony convictions, ending racial profiling as a law enforcement tool and ending the state’s mandatory minimum sentencing law.
Nsombi A. Lambright
ACLU of Mississippi
Executive Director
P.O. Box 2242
Jackson, MS 39225
601-355-6464