NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) As Race Relations OCR History

NAACP (National Assosiation of the Advancement of Coloured People) - 1909

• Black and White Supporters
• Peaceful
• Focus on legal aspects
• Constitutional organisation
• Significant long-term role
• Sim to make  Americans 11million blacks economically, intellectually, politically and socially free and equal
• Had a newspaper - The Crisis - Edited by W.E.B Du Bois
• Numbers increased from 50,000 - 450,000 during WW2

Sucesses

• Sucessful court litigation - 1915 - outlawed Grandfather clause
• Anti-lynching campaign - publisised horrors of lynchinc - helped decrease
• 88,448 members in 1919
• Supported a National Committee to Abolish The Poll Tax
• NAACP Lawyer represented Brown in Brown Vs Board of education supreme court case - intergation…