NAACP's involvement in the struggle for civil rights

NAACP protested the introduction of segregation into the federal government

Jan 26, 1913

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criticized President Woodrow Wilson for officially introducing segregation into federal government

Jan 26, 1913

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

Jan 26, 1915

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won a Supreme Court decision against the grandfather clause

Jan 26, 1915

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

Jan 26, 1950

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