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Purpose

• NAACP is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• An African American Civil Rights organization that was formed in 1909

• Mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination“

Landmark Victory

• In 1954 Thurgood Marshall and a team of NAACP attorneys won Brown v. Board of Education

• The Brown decision inspired the marches and demonstrations of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s

• Protests helped spring the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968

• The NAACP represented civil rights workers and fought for desegregation cases across the nation (using the Brown v. Board as their winning example)

• Cases were filed that successfully challenged discrimination in public areas, housing, employment, voting

Relation to Malcolm X

• The NAACP was active the same time Malcolm X was living

• They were a huge contributor to the Civil Rights movement

• Helped advance African American rights• When the March on Washington, the

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