Introduction
The topic of my thesis is the issue of racism and slavery in the history of the United States of America. Every person who is familiar with the history if the United States should also know some information when slavery and racism began, how those happened what are the most important information from this time period was. As we know, the racism began around the 17th century with the European colonization in North America. The phenomenon or racism is still present. As it can be seen, slavery and racism played a huge role in the history of the United States, which will be proven or rejected in the thesis.
Thesis contains the most important facts and events, which had influence on the history of racism. It raises the issue of the
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Before the NAACP was founded, Du Bois co-founded the Niagara Movement. It was a radical black civil rights organization, which demanded racial justice and women’s suffrage. In 1908, after the Springfield race riot, which decimated a community and left some seven people dead, the Niagara Movement started to favor a clearest integrationist response. The Niagara Movement’s vice- president became Mary White Ovington. She was the white woman, who had worked for black civil rights. To protect Afro- American rights, in 1909 came into being the National Negro Committee. It was founded by 60 activists. One year later, the NNC became the NAACP. It carried out observations against racial incidents. Moreover, they tried to influence on decisions, made by government administration on the issue of equality of Afro- Americans. The 1915 was a landmark year for the young organization. It was the representation, which told, how would the organization be over the course of he 20th century. The first successful case was the Guinn v. United States. The next landmark NAACP case was Moore v. Dempsey. For instance, in that case the Supreme Court ruled that cities may not legally ban Afro- Americans from purchasing real estate. However, the most famous case, led by the NAACP was Brown v. Board of Education. It ended racial segregation in the public school system.
The most important people in the NAACP were i.a. W.E.B. Du Bois, Charles Hamilton Houston, Harry T. and Harriette Moore, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Mary White Ovington