In 1909, a group of
prominent black and white
created the National Association for the Advancement of
People or NAACP. Their
goal was to increase
and challenge
issues like the Jim Crow
laws.
Unfortunately, it was between
and
that white
group the Ku Klux Klan saw its biggest
amid increased racial friction.
Following the First World
War, the NAACP was devoted to ending
lynching by white
vigilantes. By mid-century, the group
became instrumental in the Brown vs the Board of Education of Topeka court case. This class-action
suit filed in 1951 asked that
in schools be
struck down. Taken to the Supreme Court, the case resulted in the first
school in the United States to
in the
fall of
.