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Advancement Of Colored People Case Study

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded February 12, 1909. It’s the nation’s largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization. The NAACP’s goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution. Its objective was to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice. The NAACP was formed in the response of the continuing horrific practice of lynching and the 1808 race riot in Springfield.
A “Call” was issued by a group of people, with a collection of 60 signatures for a meeting on the concept of creating an organization that would be a watchdog of Negro liberties. Ida Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. DuBois, William English Walling, Mary White Ovington, …show more content…

Elliott case illustrated the extreme deficiencies in segregated black schools. In 1950, Briggs originated in rural Clarendon County, South Carolina. Taxpayers spent $179 to educate each white student while spending $43 for each black student. One witness before the U.S. District Court of Kansas said “The entire colored race is craving light, and the only way to reach the light is to start blacks and whites together in their infancy and they come up together.” To prove the case, the NAACP gathered historical and scientific evidence. The historical evidence was found inconclusive by the court, and drew their ruling mainly from the NAACP’s that segregation psychologically damaged black people. The lawyers of the NAACP relied on social and scientific evidence such as the doll experiments of Kenneth and Mamie Clark in which a young white girl would naturally choose a white doll to play with. A young black girl would too. The Clark’s argued that black children 's aesthetic and moral preference for white dolls indicated pernicious effects and self-loathing produced by

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Sam Borella Vincent Adams Engl. 312-02 26 February 2015 Intentions in Writing on Civil Rights Formed from Childhood When looking back at the great leaders of African American society we often think of the obvious Martin Luther King Jr., but what about the civil rights activists before him? Thinking all the way back to the late 1800s two great activists, authors, and historians come to mind. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois became known as prominent influences during their times.

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African-American historian W.E.B Dubois illustrated how the Civil War brought the problems of African-American experiences into the spotlight. As a socialist, he argued against the traditional Dunning interpretations and voiced opinions about the failures and benefits of the Civil War era, which he branded as a ‘splendid failure’. The impacts of Civil War era enabled African-Americans to “form their own fraternal organizations, worship in their own churches and embrace the notion of an activist government that promoted and safeguarded the welfare of its citizens.”

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The Supreme Court case, Brown vs. Board of Education 349 U.S 294, dealt with the segregation of black children into “separate but equal schools.” The Brown vs. Board of Education was not the first case that dealt with the separating of the whites and blacks in schools. This case was actually made up of five separate cases heard in the United States Supreme court concerning the issue of segregation in public schools. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Briggs v. Elliot, Davis v. Board of Education of Prince Edward County (VA.), Boiling v. Sharpe, and Gebhart v. Ethel were the five cases that made up the Brown case. Thurgood, Marshall, and the National Association for the Advance of Colored People (NCAAP) handled these cases.

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In the analysis of the abundance of wonderful leaders who made a difference in the African American community since emancipation, W.E.B Du Bois made a special impact to advance the world. From founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to his influential book The Souls of Black Folk, he always found an accurate yet abstract way of verbalizing the strives of African Americans as well as making platforms for them to be known. Although he had less power than most of the bigger named African American leaders of his time, W.E.B Dubois’ overweighing strengths verses weaknesses, accurate and creative analogies, leadership style, and the successful foundations he stood for demonstrates his ability to be both realistic and accurate in his assessment since emancipation. Though Du Bois did have a beneficial impact

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Ida B. Wells Barnett was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi on July 16,1862. Wells was an African American journalist, a newspaper editor, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She influenced the civil rights movement of the 1960s with her own fearless battles against discrimination decades earlier. But she herself would not live to witness a new era of race relations because she later passed away at age 69, she died of uremia (kidney failure) on march 25, 1931 in Chicago. Ida B. Wells Barnett deserves a stamp of honor because she took a stand against lynching.

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