The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a prominent American civil rights and legal advocacy group that has fought against racial discrimination since its foundation in 1909. The NAACP has filed a number of important lawsuits to stop de jure residential segregation by local and federal governments in the United States.
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NAACP Term Timeline in The Color of Law
The timeline below shows where the term NAACP appears in The Color of Law. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2: Public Housing, Black Ghettos
...was eventually reached,” to integrate future projects but maintain the segregation in existing ones, the NAACP soon sued the city government and won—but the city ignored the judge’s order to integrate...
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Chapter 9: State-Sanctioned Violence
...angry mob on the Gary family’s lawn. The police “refused to step in, so the NAACP […] organize[d] its own guards.” For more than a month, the mob waited outside the...
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Chapter 10: Suppressed Incomes
...“auxiliary union chapter[]” instead, and received no protection for the dues he paid. When the NAACP formally complained about the Boilermakers, the National Labor Relations Board did nothing. It finally banned...
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Chapter 11: Looking Forward, Looking Back
...gone on for more than 40 years and remains ongoing in the courts, as the NAACP has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the city.
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