Historical Accomplishments with the Help of NAACP
NAACP accomplished many things for the civil rights movement thus making NAACP one of the most influential organizations.
· During WWI, succeeded in getting 600 African Americans commissioned as officers, and furthermore, 700,000 African Americans registered for the army. · NAACP won the Morgan v. Virginia case (1946) that banned states from segregation in public transportation that goes across state borders. · Helped pressure President Truman into signing Executive Order 9981(1948) that desegregated the military. · The desegregation of professional schools in 1950 as “separate but equal” is deemed false. · The Brown v. Board of Education case (1954) led by the NAACP member Thurgood Marshall, that stated school segregation was unconstitutional and thus led to the gradual desegregation of public schools such as the Central High School of Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. ~Furthermore, NAACP’s legal department head Thurgood Marshall won another case that desegregated state universities in order to create equal environment for all students. · Rosa Parks, member of the NAACP, refused to give up her seat to a white man in and thus sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama that led to the desegregation of busses. · In 1960, the subsection of NAACP known as the Youth Council began series of non-violent sit-ins starting at the lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina that led to desegregation of lunch counters in 26 southern cities. |
· NAACP helped push President Johnson to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ensured that the federal government would “enforce the desegregation and prohibit discrimination in public facilities, in government and in employment.”(“America’s Civil Rights Timeline”) as well as in schools, housing and hiring. Thus “’Jim Crow’ laws in the South were abolished.” (“America’s Civil Rights Movement”).
~Furthermore, the passing of Voting Rights Act of 1965 by President Johnson that barred discriminating vote practices that occurred especially in the South like the literary tests. ~The passing of Fair Housing Act (1968) by President Johnson that abolished racial, religious, and gender discrimination of the sale, rental and financing of housing · Helped to abolish the death penalty in New Mexico in 2003, in Connecticut in 2012 and in Maryland in 2013. · They helped outlaw the New York City’s stop-and-frisk racial profiling program |