The NAACP claimed that Parker had made many court decisions against African-Americans, and they fought the nomination.

Though none of the men were found guilty by the all-white jury ( as blacks had been disfranchised under the South Carolina constitution, they could not serve on juries ), Thurmond was congratulated by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) and the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) for his efforts.

Moreover, some local leaders of the NAACP had tried to persuade the students to back down from their protest against the Jim Crow laws of school segregation.

The lawyers from the NAACP had to gather some plausible evidence in order to win the case of Brown vs. Education.

She was secretary of the Montgomery NAACP chapter and had recently returned from a meeting at the Highlander Center in Tennessee where nonviolent civil disobedience as a strategy had been discussed.

However, by 1939, the perception of discrimination against African Americans had changed to the point that the NAACP magazine Opportunity hailed the WPA, saying:

White however had not yet seen the film ; his statement was based on memos he received from two NAACP staff members who attended a press screening on November 20, 1946, Norma Jensen and Hope Springarn.

On May 31, 1961, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed suit in the U. S. District Court, alleging that the university had rejected Meredith only because of the color of his skin, as he had a highly successful record.

The plaintiffs had been recruited by the leadership of the Topeka NAACP.

:: Example: Relying upon NAACP, we concluded that the South Carolina Supreme Court's interpretation of a state penal statute had impermissibly broadened the scope of that statute beyond what a fair reading provided, in violation of due process.

Reproduction of an old tin sign advertising Picaninny Freeze, a frozen treat In the U. S., by the 1950s, the NAACP had begun calling attention to such portrayals of African Americans and mounted a campaign to put an end to blackface performances and depictions.

A Korean War veteran, married and with five children, he also had been treasurer of the NAACP.

In 1958, local NAACP Chapter President Robert F. Williams defended a nine-year-old African-American boy who had been kissed by a white girl in an incident known as the Kissing Case.

The NAACP argued that, although schools were not officially segregated ( i. e., white only ), the city of Detroit and surrounding counties had enacted policies to increase racial segregation in schools.

The NAACP had accepted and litigated other cases, including that of Irene Morgan 10 years earlier, which resulted in a victory in the U. S. Supreme Court on Commerce Clause grounds.

The NAACP, a nonprofit membership corporation based in New York, had not complied with the statute, as it believed it was exempt.

The Alabama state circuit court finally heard the case on the merits, and decided the NAACP had violated Alabama law and ordered it to stop doing business in the state ; the Alabama appeals courts upheld this judgment, refusing to hear the NAACP's appeals on Constitutional grounds.

* Bruce Bennett, the Arkansas Attorney General sought in 1958 to impose limitations on the NAACP comparable to what had been done in Alabama.

The Deacons had a relationship with other civil rights groups that advocated and practiced non-violence: the willingness of the Deacons to provide low-key armed guards facilitated the ability of groups such as the NAACP and CORE to stay, at least formally, within their own parameters of non-violence.

The NAACP, led by the soon-to-be first black Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, was successful in challenging the constitutional viability of the separate but equal doctrine, and the court voted to overturn sixty years of law that had developed under Plessy.

In Goluboff's book, it has been stated that the goals of the NAACP was to bring to the Court ’ s awareness the fact that African American children were the victims of the legalization of school segregation and were not guaranteed a bright future.

Elbert County resident John Clarke has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia NAACP, and has also been awarded the prestigious Justice Robert Benham Public Service Award.

The vice president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and an NAACP worker, Lee had been urging African-Americans in the Mississippi Delta to register and vote.

The NAACP and Urban League saw it as a gesture of support for a civil rights bill that had been introduced by the Kennedy Administration.

The NAACP and its Director, Roy Wilkins, provided legal counsel for jailed demonstrators, helped raise bail, and continued to test segregation and discrimination in the courts as it had been doing for half a century.

In his 1948 memoirs, NAACP president Walter White said, " He has been variously reported in Mexico, apparently supplied with ample funds, and in other parts of North America.

In 1944, the NAACP launched criticism of the textbook ; by 1950, under pressure from students and younger colleagues, Morison, while denying any racist intent ( he noted that his daughter had been married to Joel Elias Spingarn, the former President of the NAACP ), reluctantly agreed to most of the demanded changes.

He also worked to organize an NAACP chapter in Atlanta ; the organization had been set up several years before and White was supportive of their work.

He repeatedly refuses to play the " race card " even when baited to do so by several reporters, is clearly much more politically conservative than an attorney arguing such a case at the time might have been expected to be, and is shown to be in sharp contrast with Lucien on such matters, as well as with Ellen, to whom he expresses his strong support for the death penalty ( just not for Carl Lee ) and his contempt for the ACLU and, to a lesser extent, the NAACP.

The NAACP and another group said African-American businesses should have been awarded twice that amount of work.

She has been nominated five times for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series for the role.

He has been honored by organizations representing the spectrum of issues to which he has devoted his career, including the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award from LCCR ; the Benjamin Hooks " Keeper of the Flame " Award from the national NAACP ; the Public Service Achievement Award from Common Cause ; the Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award from the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund ; the " National Good Guy Award " from the National Women's Political Caucus ; the Isaiah Award for the Pursuit of Justice from the American Jewish Committee ; the Flag Bearer Award from Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays ( P-FLAG ); the Edison Uno Memorial Civil Rights Award from the Japanese American Citizens League ; the University of Chicago Alumni Public Service Citation ; " Citizen of the Year " from the Guillian-Barr Syndrome Foundation International ; and named in 2004 one of Vanity Fair's " Best Stewards of the Environment.

Mischer has been honored with fifteen Emmy Awards, a record ten Directors Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, two NAACP Image Awards, a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, and the 2012 Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television from the Producers Guild of America.

He has also been honored with an NAACP Image Award nomination for Best Jazz Album.

One felt the film had no racist connotations, while the other, Willis Edwards, vice president of the Hollywood NAACP chapter, felt the film was inflammatory and should never have been made.

Hooks stated that he would serve out the 1992 year and predicted that a change in leadership would not jeopardize the NAACP ’ s stability: “ We ’ ve been through some little stormy periods before.

The Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP ( a small legal group separate from the much better known NAACP ) had been waging a systematic legal fight against the " separate but equal " doctrine enunciated in Plessy v. Ferguson ( 1896 ) and finally had challenged Plessy in a series of five related cases, which had been argued before the Court in the spring of 1953.

Several state attorney generals have begun investigating these practices, which may violate fair lending laws, and the NAACP have filed a class-action lawsuit charging systematic racial discrimination by more than a dozen banks.

Notable among the Topeka NAACP leaders were the chairman McKinley Burnett ; Charles Scott, one of three serving as legal counsel for the chapter ; and Lucinda Todd.

Volunteer lawyers from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Inc (" Ink Fund "), National Lawyers Guild, Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee ( LCDC ) an arm of the ACLU, and the Lawyers ' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ( LCCR ) provided free legal services — handling arrests, freedom of speech, voter registration and other matters.

Walter Francis White ( July 1, 1893, Atlanta, Georgia – March 21, 1955, New York, New York ) was a civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) for almost a quarter of a century and directed a broad program of legal challenges to segregation and disfranchisement.

Under his leadership, the NAACP set up the Legal Defense Fund, which raised numerous legal challenges to segregation and disfranchisement, and achieved many successes.

The NAACP put together a legal defense of the men convicted and carried the case to the Supreme Court.

Although Brown resulted in a legal victory for the NAACP, it was a hollow victory for those associated with Briggs.

In 1979, the NAACP honored Berry by awarding him the William Robert Ming Advocacy Award for the spirit of financial and personal sacrifice displayed in his legal work.

The organization can trace its origins to the legal department of the NAACP that was created by Charles Hamilton Houston in the 1930s.

Her legal career began as a law clerk in the fledgling NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ( LDF ), where she worked with a distinguished group of civil rights attorneys, among them future U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, prominent Jewish-American civil-rights advocate Jack Greenberg, and many others.

The NAACP fought a long legal battle against segregation and racial discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting and transportation.

Greenberg became the only white legal counselor for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (" LDF ") in 1949, and, in 1961, succeeded Thurgood Marshall as LDF's Director-Counsel.

During the 1920s, the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People ( NAACP ) sponsored several unsuccessful legal challenges against racial covenants.

Soon afterwards, Bell took a position as an assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ( LDF ), crafting legal strategies at the forefront of the battle to undo racist laws and segregation in schools.

Also during this time period, officers of the organization negotiated with Montgomery city leaders, coordinated legal challenges with the NAACP to the city's bus segregation ordinance, and supported the boycott financially, raising money by passing the plate at meetings and soliciting support from northern and southern civil rights organizations.