Cleopatra Dunlap - 600 Words

Cleopatra Dunlap 2B NAACP NAACP has been a Catalyst for change for over one hundred years. Founded in 1909 the NAACP is the largest oldest civil rights organization founded by a group of white liberals sign the calling African Americans like; W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell Taking a huge part and making a great impact in today’s society. Through, education, transportation, housing, employment, voting and criminal justice. Winning numerous court cases and stopping at nothing to produce a change all over America. If it’s one field that the NAACP has made the most difference in has to be education, with their first†¦show more content†¦In 1877 the Supreme Court ruled illegal to forbid segregation and likewise illegal to require it. This case of 1946, helped put an end to segregated transportation in 1960s during the Civil Rights movement. Freely discrimination through housing is now a thing of the past, the NAACP has played a part in the preventi on of housing discrimination. The NAACP held multiple litigation campaigns including the Buchanan v, Warley, Louisville Kentucky housing segregation case of 1915 with the help of local branch attorneys initiating proceedings Corrigan v. Buckley in Washington D.C, a major test case against restrictive covenant case in 1922 Receiving a devastating defeat, allowing the alienation to be enforced by law where African Americans purchased property to still be denied possessing or evicted by local authorities Not until during the second world war did the NAACP have major impetus concern over racial discrimination in the construction of war workers. The NAACP campaign against racial discrimination in housing didn’t finish until Congress passed The Civil Rights Act of 1968 or specifically in this case the Fair Housing Act of 1968. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 was designed to make it a federal crime for the â€Å"refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin† later the disabled and families with children were added to this list The NAACP enforced to improve this act and making it a