Lesson 5: NAACP

Question 1

When was the NAACP established?

Answer 1

1909

(Following the 1908 Springfield race riot)

Question 2

What was the NAACPs aims/beliefs?

Answer 2

-To encourage all races to protest against discrimination
-Gain support from moderate whites
-Raise awareness amongst southern blacks
-challange racial unfairness through publicity and the courts

Question 3

What was the name of their official magazine?

Answer 3

The Crisis

Question 4

What were their legal successes?

Answer 4

They got rid of the ‘Grandfather Clause’ in the Supreme Court in 1915

Got the House of Representatives to vote in favour of passing anti-lynching bills in 1937 and 1940 (stopped in senate)

1941- sponsored a National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax

1954: Brown vs Board of Education in Topeka

Question 5

How many members did they have by 1919?

Answer 5

88,448

Question 6

Factors that acted against the NAACP

Answer 6

• Jim Crow Laws remained in the south
• black urban poverty (run down ghettoes)
• black workers were not members of trade unions so could not challenge unfair working conditions
• many blacks lacked political knowledge
• southern blacks were threatened by the KKK

Question 7

Who were the leaders of the NAACP before and after 1930?

Answer 7

From 1909 to 1930 - WEB Du Bois

In 1930 Walter White defeated Du Bois