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Stakeman, Randy, and Jackson Stakeman. "The Walter White Project: The NAACP in the 1930's." The Walter White Project. 10 June 2012. Web. 12 Apr. 2016. <http://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/stakeman/issues-of-the-1930s>.
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NAACP In The 1930's
Legal History
Protest
From May to June, 1919 the race riots erupted in cities all across the United States. As a response to the riots NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson planned peaceful protests.
By: Chase Babair
- Plessy vs. Ferguson- Landmark Supreme Court decision that allows segragation laws.
- Morgan vs. Virginia- Landmark Supreme Court decision that stated virginias segragation laws were unconstitutional
The Great Depression
Many hated them
The Great Depression was an economic slump
that lasted from 1929 to 1939. This affected the
NAACP because they lost a lot of funding from millionaires who lost all their money. This caused them to not be able to do as many things as they would have liked to.
At this time many people still believed that blacks and whites should be segregated. As you could assume that caused those people to be very angry when they heard about a group push to demolish what they were pushing for.
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Background Information
Struggles
The NAACP was a civil rights organization that pushed for African-American to get more rights in America.
- There were many struggles for the NAACP in the 1930's.
- The following are some of the struggles endured by the NAACP in the 1930s
The NAACP was started in 1909 by
W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett,
and Mary White Ovington. The
NAACP was created to help abolish
segragation and discrimination.