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NAACP

Or N.A.A.C.P.
  1. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.



NAACP

abbreviation

  1. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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But five years after its passage, the law has hardly been used, according to an analysis of newly obtained sentencing data by the Stanford Law School Three Strikes Project and NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund.

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Working with the NAACP, it contributed to a series of lawsuits that would ultimately help overturn the Plessy v.

As a Stanford undergraduate, he met the NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall, not long after the latter won a victory against racial segregation in Brown v.

However, there are ways in which I think institutions like mass media had more authority in the ’60s and ’70s and civic organizations like the NAACP, Anti-Defamation League, Americans for Democratic Action, and other powerful voices within both parties pushed back successfully on the extremists.

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This evenly paced hour covers Thurgood Marshall’s extensive work as a civil attorney and the head of the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, or LDF.

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