The Fellowships Office will manage, on behalf of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and its sponsors, the Marshall-Motley Scholars Program (MMSP). The MMSP will be an innovative scholarship program designed to produce a highly skilled cadre of racial justice attorneys committed to working in the Southern region of the United States. The Program—named after LDF and civil rights legends Thurgood Marshall (also LDF’s founder) and Constance Baker Motley—is intended to create a path for students to realize equal educational opportunity, and support and launch their careers as civil rights attorneys. The Marshall-Motley Scholars Program will seed the South with a cohort of well-trained and highly dedicated civil rights attorneys to provide superior legal representation to African American communities. This program is unique in that it addresses key factors that often deter debt-burdened African Americans from pursuing their dream of becoming civil rights attorneys. The MMSP will provide Program participants with: 1) a full law school scholarship including tuition, room, board and incidentals; (2) summer internships at LDF and workshops at NAS to begin their training as civil rights lawyers early in their law school careers; (3) a two-year postgraduate fellowship at a national, regional, or local civil rights organization with a racial justice law practice in the South; and, (4) access to special trainings. It is LDF’s intent that the MMSP provide pathways to leadership, self-sufficiency, and socio- economic progress. As a component of the Scholars Program, the NASEM will host a yearly seminar to support the scholars' understanding of scientific evidence.