The NAACP was formed in reaction to the horrific lynching that was going on in 1908 and race riots in the capital of Illinois; Springfield. They are against racism and are driven to help African American students to get equal rights with whites. Brown v. Boards of Education was a Supreme Court case in 1953 that overturned the school segregation which had been justified by Plessy v. Ferguson.
They always challenged Jim Crow laws in the courts with Thurgood Marshall as lawyer in Brown vs. Board of Education. Martin Luther King Jr., led a March on Washington in 1963 to help influence public opinion to support civil rights laws.
The NAACP is still a lobbying group today doing many great things for the Colored minorities and Civil Rights. It is helping to stop racism through legal action. Unfortunately this is still a major problem in the world. They led people to think they all needed to work together for their rights as American people. Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall worked with the N.A.A.C.P. in the 1950s and 1960s as they overcame legal segregation.
What do you think the major challenge is today for the N.A.A.C.P.?
http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history
youresocreepy • Mar 25, 2015 at 10:34 pm
I feel like in the last year, racism has sparked more than it has in decades. It’s amazing what the NAACP did and does for colored minorities, things aren’t perfect, but if we didn’t have the NAACP, it would probably be a lot worse.