NAACP's involvement in the struggle for civil rights

  • NAACP protested the introduction of segregation into the federal government

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  • criticized President Woodrow Wilson for officially introducing segregation into federal government

    Wilson finally publicly condemned lynching in 1918
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  • Protested the film "Birth of a Nation" D.W. Griffith for hostile stereotyping of African Americans

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  • won a Supreme Court decision against the grandfather clause

    used by many southern states to prevent blacks from voting
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  • campaigned against the legal doctrine initially established in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

    doctrine stated that separate but equal schools for black and white children were constitutional.
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