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The NAACP And The Civil Rights Movement

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The NAACP were instrumental in the implementation of the Civil rights act. They worked within the system to fight for equal rights mostly through legal battles, which led to some major victories and laid the groundwork for what was to come. Despite courtroom victories, the implementation of civil rights was slow going. And while the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s echoed the NAACP's goals, the leaders of the movement such as Martin Luther King Jr felt that direct action was needed to obtain them and that the NAACP’s approach was to slow. Although it was criticized for working exclusively within the system the NAACP did provide legal representation and aid to members of other protest groups over the period. And despite their
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