The History of the Civil Rights Movement
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
.
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