Why Is The NAACP Important?

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

In 1865, slavery was abolished, by the Thirteenth amendment. This Amendment brought humongous changes and a large number of problems. (Lecture 1) After the destruction of slavery, it left nearly four million African American with no property, little training, and few rights; which made the definition of freedom for African Americans the central question on the nation’s agenda. The big question of the time period was, “what was freedom for African Americans?” (Give me liberty! An American 550)

The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, an independent legal aid group, argues in court on behalf of the NAACP and other civil-rights groups. Along with the NAACP, it was instrumental in helping to bring about the Supreme Court's ruling (1954) against segregated public education in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans. Case (Spartacus 1).     The strategy shifted after Brown, however, to "direct action"--primarily bus boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides, and similar movements-- from 1955 to 1965. In part this was the unintended result of the local authorities' attempt to outlaw and harass the mainstream civil rights organizations throughout the Deep South. The State of Alabama had effectively barred the NAACP from operating in Alabama by requiring it to give the state a list of its members. In the South of the 1950s, that would have exposed every member of the NAACP to retaliation, from being fired to being firebombed. While the United States Supreme Court ultimately reversed the order, for a few years in the mid 1950s

I am here by writing this essay to explain, how these organizations in the United States such as the MADD, LULAC, and NAACP can educate and help our fellow citizens of America change laws that might well need to be changed. As well as explaining the common interest these groups are concerned with.

While sitting in my history class, we’ve learned about the segregation of the colored and the whites. From the water fountains being labeled “Colored” and “White” to the seating arrangement that discriminated the blacks to sit in the back, we learned and felt the pain of it all. But, while sitting in this class, it wasn’t even mentioned once about the creation of the Negro Leagues until Robert Peterson had wrote and expressed to this millennial age about what it was like to live in the time where the Negro Leagues has existed. Without Peterson, how would anyone have known about the history about the Negro Leagues? Without Peterson, how would anyone know how it has influenced and build many lives for the African-American community during the time of unrighteous suffering. The reasons why Robert Peterson is important to the Negro Leagues and to American History is because of the information that he has publicized base on his experience with the Negro Leagues and how it has impacted the many African Americans who has joined the Negro Leagues.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People otherwise known as the NAACP was founded in 1909 by a group of multiracial civil rights campaigners. The primary reason for their upcoming was due to the riot race of 1908. The NAACP would only fight back in one way though and this was nonviolent resistance. Which meant that whatever way the people of the NAACP were treated they would not lay a finger on their enemy. The NAACP has had two primary court cases that put them on top this was Brown v. Board of Education and Morgan v. Virginia.

The African-American community is comprised of 34 million people, and makes up approximately 12.8 percent of the American population (Barker, Jones, Tate 1999: 3). As such, it is the largest minority group in the United States. Yet, politically, the black community has never been able to sufficiently capitalize on that status in order to receive the full benefits of life in America. Today, African-Americans, hold less than 2 percent of the total number of elected positions in this country (Tate, 1994: 3) and the number of members within the community that actually partake in voting continues to drop. In spite of these statistics, as of 1984, a telephone survey found that 70

NAACP vs. North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue (3rd circuit. 2011) is a case about recruitment and disparate impact. The facts of this case are as follows: The NAACP took the North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue team to court to establish a prima facie case of disparate impact discrimination against African Americans. The NAACP argued that the residency requirement was creating a disparate impact on African American applicants. As is common practice in New Jersey eligibility for civil service members in North Hudson include only candidates in one of the five member municipalities when they took the written exam. The North Hudson Battalion or Deputy Chief verify the candidates residency at the time of hire but once hired the new hire may move

The African American Music Association, Inc. (AAMA) was established to preserve, protect, promote and to foster the continued development of African American music and the legacy of those who compose, record and perform the music. The AAMA is a tax-exempt, 501(c) (3) entity. It is organized exclusively for charitable, cultural and educational purposes. Its primary goal is to offer programs and activities to the community that will assure a better quality of life for persons pursuing performing arts as a career or avocation. The “total well-being” of the artist, through human and personal development is the overall goal.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was an association established in 1909 to advance full racial uniformity. The NAACP helped the lives of African Americans since they pushed for more social and political rights. NAACP The vast scale development of African Americans from the south to northern urban areas in the mid twentieth century. This happened mostly amid WWI in light of the fact that the employment opportunities gave African Americans the motivating force to move north. Likewise, the pervasion of the boll weevil in Southern cotton ranches was a push factor in the colossal movement. Numerous African Americans relocated north to escape racial separation they looked in the south, based on the Jim Crow isolation

On the one hundred year anniversary of the NACCP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, president Obama gave a speech in celebration all the work the NACCP has done. In his words, the NACCP changed history for americans and will continue to do so for many years in the future. His biggest belief was the need to end racial discrepancies, he explained so at the convention. To strengthen his argument for racial equality, he states to the audience that he believes many ways could end racial inequality including education, equivalent job opportunities, and family support.

According to Ira Berlin's essay "The role of African-Americans in the abolition of slavery," despite the role of slavery in causing the American Civil War, Northerners and Southerners alike did not envision slaves having a viable role in fighting for their freedom. However, as the war progressed, it became increasingly clear that slaves could play a role in the conflict to help the Northern side. The Emancipation Proclamation and the subsequent conscription of African-Americans had a very practical purpose: it demonstrated that the Union was on the 'side' of enslaved blacks and enabled African-Americans to prove their readiness to become citizens. At first there was tremendous opposition to these policies: merely because people supported the Union did not mean they believed in equality of the races. Even in the North, there was initial resistance to returning slaves to their owners after war was declared. Anti-slavery congressmen took great passed a resolution declaring it 'no part of the duty of the soldiers of the United States to capture and return fugitive slaves" only with great effort (Berlin et al 428). As black Americans, including escaped slaves began to play a more and more critical role in the war effort and eventually, the abolitionist view began to become more accepted. Escaped and freed slaves served in military camps as cooks, nurses, laundresses and labor, and bridged the social

After graduation Halberstam did not opt for a job in one of the big markets, instead he was very interested in heading to the south and being in the middle of what he thought was the most important and critical story, which was the civil rights movement. Halberstam set up a job during his final year at Harvard to work for a progressive new paper in Jackson, Mississippi to cover civil rights stories. Unfortunately for Halberstam when he arrived the individual who offered the position had left the paper and they had not positions available. Halberstam scrambled and found a job for a very small paper in West Point, Mississippi, The Daily Times Leader. The paper was the smallest in Mississippi and a very conservative paper, which did not fit

It is often believed that segregation dissipated with times of civil rights movement, MLK, and all the fighting. To many this is true. But just like during those times, there are still many unknown places throughout the US in which segregation still exist. This mostly occurs in the south, just like it had only a few decades ago. There have been several cases in which the people took it into their own hands as a new movement to change their homes. It all starts with the Brown vs. Education Board federal court case of 1954.

Racism and colonization were associated in Africa under the white dominion; the inhabitants of Africa were forced into work. The black people were taunted, dehumanized and compared to savage in the Europeans eyes. The colonialism was an ordeal in the life to the natives who was under the supremacy of the racist master. Frantz Fanon, a philosopher, revolutionary, and writer explores and exposes how racism was associated with colonialism; furthermore, how it affected the life of the black people: “When the settlers seeks to describe the natives fully in the exact terms he constantly refers to the bestiality. The Europeans rarely hits on a picturesque style; but the native, who knows what in the mind thinking of.” (133). This passage reveals the