The son of a Puerto Rican father and Dominican mother, Perales, a civil rights attorney, co-founded the non-profit PRLDEF in 1972, modeling it after NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund.

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ALBANY, N.Y. -- The New York Senate has confirmed attorney Cesar Perales to be New York's secretary of state. Perales, co-founder of the Latino Justice Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education ...

Cesar Perales, president of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, recently filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of Latino immigrants who want their U.S. citizen applications ...

Secretary of State Cesar A. Perales, who oversees the New York State Office for New Americans (ONA) for Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, visits the ONA Opportunity Center in Syracuse. Kate Holmes ...

The long journey began for Cesar Perales in the spring of 1969 with a phone call and a plea from a friend. Scores of students had just occupied several buildings on the City College campus. At the … ...

As expected, Gov. Cuomo has just announced his nomination of Cesar Perales — who has worked in the administrations of Cuomo’s father, former Mayors Dinkins and Lindsay and President Jimmy ...

Cesar A. Perales, president and general counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF (PRLDEF), was honored with the 2011 Haywood Burns Award from the New York State Bar Association during the State Bar's ...