The Rise Of The NAACP

The NAACP was established in 1909 in New York City by a gathering of bi-racial activists.

In 1944, Primus King, a black man registered to vote in Georgia, attempted to cast a ballot in the Democratic primary. He was turned away by a police officer who escorted him off the premises of the Muscogee County Courthouse. This was a time in Georgia where the Democratic Party controlled all of the politics in Georgia and in the South. Primus King’s challenge to the white primary was planned by a group of black civil rights

Both the African American integrationist movement and Black Power movement had common goals such as ending racial injustice towards African Americans and advocating civil rights for African Americans in the United States. Yet, the ideologies of the two movements and how they went about accomplishing their goals was drastically different. While the integrationist movement relied on concepts such as Christian Universalism and Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA), the Black Power movement relied on more explicit means such as direct action and mobilization with violence if necessary. In general however, it seems that both movements had well-defined overarching ideologies. For the integrationist movement, Non-Violence was the key to successful integration.

As a result of Addams hard work and reputation, she was then drawn into a larger field of responsibility. She was one of the first members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She was appointed to Chicago’s Board of Education, and in 1909 she became the first woman president of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections. “In 1911, she was elected vice president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.” Years later, in 1915, she accepted the chairmanship of the Women’s Peace Party. Addams also served as president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom until 1929. These advancements in her career led her to be very admired by her peers but also led to disapproval of her thoughts. When Addams began making speeches against World War I, she was no longer invited to speak to groups. “In 1931 Addams became the second woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This important award honored her work for peace. She received a peace medal and $16,480… She gave the money to the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.”

In 1960, there were tremendous of social ferment that was responsible for agitation and protest. Through direct protest, many African Americans, women, and homosexuals were able to gain recognition and break down the walls of discrimination and segregations. Out of the numerous elements that arose in the 1960s, there are three movements that truly affected the American society. Firstly, the rise of the civil rights movement was greatly influenced by racial discrimination of colored people in the South. Secondly, the women’s movement aimed to convince the society that women are capable of achieving and maintaining higher waged job like males. Lastly, the gay rights movement aimed to gain acceptance and stop discrimination of homosexuality. The most significant effect on the development of American society was the women’s movement and how they expanded their economic and political opportunities. The common goal among African Americans, women’s, and homosexuals was to obtain their equal rights as citizens of America and to desegregate all the boundaries between white and black population.

The civil rights movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. It has been made up of many movements, though it is often used to refer to the struggles between 1945 and 1970 to end discrimination against African-Americans and to end racial segregation, especially in the U.S. South. It focuses on that particular struggle, rather than the comparable movements to end discrimination against other ethnic groups within the United States or those struggles, such as the women's liberation, gay liberation, and disabled rights movements, that have used similar tactics in pursuit of similar goals. The civil rights movement has had a lasting

In order to achieve their goals, the NAACP relies on funding and support from outside entities. A substantial portion of the NAACPs income came from donation. “The NAACP has received funding from the AT&T Foundation, the Bauman Family Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Freddie Mac Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the JEHT Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Sara Lee Foundation, the Scherman Foundation, the Verizon Foundation, the Tides Foundation and Boeing. In the 2010-11 fiscal year, the National Education Association (the largest labor union in the United States) donated $25,000 to the NAACP” (group snoop).

With the late 1940s and early 1950s, came three powerful voices fighting for change race relations in America. Approximately 900,000 young black men had recently fought a war for freedom and democracy, refused to return to the Jim Crow south, and became very vocal about wanting equal rights. Additionally, increasing support from liberals like Harry Truman and Gunner Myrdal as well as the activism of Thurgood Marshall led the legal side of the campaign for equal rights. One young black American corporal said "I spent four years in the Army to free a bunch of Dutchmen and Frenchmen, and I'm hanged if I'm going to let the Alabama version of the Germans kick me around when I get home. No sirreee-bob! I went into the Army a nigger; I'm comin' out a man." The Membership in the NAACP, jumped from 50,000 in 1940 to 450,000 in 1946 with over 14,000 branches by 1948. Eleven states and twenty-eight cities enacted laws that established Fair Employment Practices Commissions and eighteen states approved laws calling for the end of racial discrimination in public places. While legislation all over the north was ending racial discrimination in most ways, the south was much slower to act.

The war of equality for the African American was fought on many battlefields. Whether on American soil or the trenches of other countries, black men and women gave their every breath to be known as equal human beings. The white man of the south, on the other hand, rich or poor and uneducated alike wanted to insinuate their façade of superiority and hold the black community to their haven of slavery. Being put through unimaginable trials such as lynching, Jim crow laws, sharecropping did not stop African Americans from their endeavors, in reality, it gave them a reason to strive for their constitutional rights that have been forsaken for too long. Because going back to the days of slavery -although it seemed like they were treated that way

If you take a look at the progress our nation has made over the years you will most likely see that the changes that have been made were due to a person or group realizing that there are major issues occurring in our society and government that desperately needs to be changed. A problem that our nation had for many years was the unfair mistreatment of the African-American people. After years of this mistreatment African-American people finally started to demand the change that they have rightfully deserved to for so many years, and as a result the Civil Rights Movement took place. For so many years people were basically ignorant about the situation that was taking place right in front of their eyes. The majority of whites raised their children to believe that the blacks did not deserve to be treated as equals because people with darker skin were beneath them, while blacks had to mentally prepare their children for the harsh reality that they were going to have to face for possibly the rest of their lives.

Through encompassing their various talents and abilities, numerous African Americans wound up looking for self-articulation through their works. Numerous players in the New Negro Movement, saw this turbulent time as a chance to expose the prejudiced stereotypes that they had been battling for a considerable length of time. This turned into an inspiration for a national social development, and a re-conceptualization about how several blacks saw themselves.

Disenfranchisement, segregation, and oppression still existed in Southern states for African Americans in the 1960, although it has been nearly 100 years since the Emancipation Proclamation. African Americans were still segregated from classrooms, restrooms, theatres, etc. due to “Jim Crow” laws; and in 1954, the “separate but equal” doctrine was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. For hundreds of years African Americans fought for their civil rights, desegregation, and basic human rights. One significant movement in history that was major for the Civil Rights Movement era was the Freedom Rides. This was a fight to end the illegal segregation of travel. African Americans have fought tirelessly for their equal rights, desegregation and racism, and Jim Crow laws; the Freedom Rides of 1961 played a major part in the Civil Rights Movement and were one of the final movements to end segregation with public transportation.

Many Americans try to pretend that just because slavery has come to an end and the Civil Rights movement occurred that racism has just suddenly vanished, but that 's not the case. A person is not born racist, it is taught while growing up in a racist environment. It is a learned behavior of hate towards someone not you. Racism is very evident in men 's professional sports today but also had an even greater effect in the past. There was a point in time where African American males were not allowed to participate in professional sports and they were shunned and labeled as outcasts who did not have the decency to step on the same field, court, or ring. Now that they are allowed to participate in professional sports African Americans have to deal with a great deal of racism in today 's society which brings about many controversies such as riots, banning of athletes, team fines, and the sale of teams. In today 's society sports has great influence, effect and power which can serve as a bridge for the gap between racism and discrimination. Racism will never fully go away, but as a society work can be done to lessen the problem and come to a point where it is so minuscule it wouldn 't even be a thought. People can 't change the world unless they change themselves. It starts with the people first.

The United States during the 1960s was not only a place of mass social movements and changes for the New Left, but also the rise of the New Right and its entrenchment in the nation’s modern political culture. The conservative movements in the 60s have many times been overshadowed by the more colorful New Left and its protest philosophy. Ture, it was an era of great liberal social change. For example, African-Americans engineered one of the most successful social movements of the 20th century. Yet the US did not move towards these ideas lightly, but under great opposition from a significant and important amount of its own citizens. This paper seeks to examine the forces that instigated such a powerful movement and will argue that a complex

The anti-Klan had defeated the Klan by holding private meetings and spreading the word through the newspaper showing that many of the people in Centerville were against the Klan and that they were going to have the votes to prove it. On voting day, all people gathered at the voting locations. On March 30 at seven o’clock the counting started, it was announced all across the town, and in the theater that the Lincoln League also known as the anti-Klan had won the votes. As people honked their horns, fireworks shot, and people singing, marching, dancing till early hours of the