that states failed to provide equal education opportunities-Novanet :))
that states failed to provide equal education opportunities-Novanet :))
that states failed to provide equal education opportunities
The civil rights organization won a number of important cases against segregation in the 1950s was the NAACP. The acronym stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The NAACP won a number of important cases, including Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).
Thurgood Marshall
NAACP v Alabama was important because it would have prohibited the NAACP from operating in the state of Alabama. The NAACP won the case and it was a big victory for civil rights.
Virginia NAACP DefenseSpottswood W. Robinson III was the leader of Virginia's NAACP defense in the Virginia case, Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, which was one of five cases consolidated as Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).A companion case, Bolling v. Sharpe, 347 U.S. 497 (1954), was heard separately because it originated in Washington, DC, which is federal, not state, territory. This case had to be considered in terms of specific federal statutes.
Criminal cases and civil cases
The NAACP!
You may be asking who argued Brown v. Board of Education,(1954) before the US Supreme Court. The lead counsel for the Petitioner (Brown, et al.) was Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first African-American to serve on the Court.Attorney Charles Hamilton Houston, former Dean of Howard University Law School, hired Marshall to work with the NAACP. Thurgood Marshall later became a founder of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, an independent, but related, arm of the national organization responsible for much of the legal battle for African-Americans' civil rights.The NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund brought many cases to the US Supreme Court under the leadership of prominent African-American attorneys. Thurgood Marshall was, perhaps, the best remembered by history, but was by no means the only lawyer working for civil rights, nor was Brown the only case the NAACP sponsored.For more information, see Related Questions, below.
Thurgood Marshall was lead counsel for the NAACP-sponsored case Brown v. Board of Education, (1954), and its follow-up case Brown v. Board of Education II, (1955). He argued 32 civil rights cases before the US Supreme Court, and won 29 of them. In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Marshall to the US Supreme Court, making him the first African-American justice in the Court's history.
Thurgood Marshall -D. Roe