My Big Blog Assigned Blog #5 is over Black history Month and I choose the Topic on the NAACP. NAACP is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.The NAACP was formed in Springfield, Illinois and in a response to the 1908 race riot. Many people thought that the riot was really bad because it was against blacks. The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution promised to end slavery, gave equal rights to colored individuals, and gave suffrage to male colored individuals. The NAACP had an office located in New York City and named the board of directors. There was also a president, Moorfield Storey, who was a white lawyer and the former president of the American Bar Association. There was only 1 African American on the board of directors, Du Bois, and he was the director of publications and research at the office in New York City.There was a series of court cases that were won under the NAACP lawyer and President Moorfield Storey. One of the more known cases that was won wasGuinn v. United States, 1910. This court case helped established the NAACP importance as legal advocate, which would play a very important role in success for the NAACP in future court cases. The NAACP was able to gain a lot of power in 1915 with the victory “against D. W. Griffith’s inflammatory Birth of a Nation, a motion picture the perpetuated demeaning stereotypes of African Americans and glorified the Ku Klux Klan.” The NAACP grew very quickly from 9,000 members to about 90,000 members in 1919, and also had about 300 branches throughout the United States.Throughout the 1920’s, the fight that was going on between colored people and white people had become the NAACP’s first priority. During the Great Depression in the 1930’s, there was a desperate struggle to get colored people the same or close to the same rights as white people. The NAACP supported Dyer Bill which could get many people in trouble for racial discrimination, through not helping to persecute of that have participated in mobs and riots against colored people. The Marigold Report became known for its basis and its successful reversal of the segregated United States. InPlessy v. Ferguson, they declared that facilities had to be the same for whites and colored people. Another court case is Brown v. Board of Education, 1954, is known because it outlawed segregation in public schools. This court case allowed black and white children to get the same education.Pictures:
Sources:- http://www.africanaonline.com/orga_naacp.htmPersonal Thoughts and opinions:I think that the NAACP helped get the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments passed to allow colored people the same rights as whites. I do not think that racial discrimination should have been tolerated for as long as it was. For the people who are in the KKK I think they should look into what they are doing and think if there is a true reason that they are in the KKK. I have half black cousins and I also have half Mexican cousins that I do love with all my heart and besides their skin color I do not see a real difference between us. Besides everyone having a different personality, we are all the same it’s just our skin color that separates us from all being just about the exact same.
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