Question

What was the focus on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) during the 1920s and 1930s?

Answer 1

The NAACP movement was started during 1909 in New York City as an attempt by both white and black activists to generate changes in the laws and ways of acting of the American society towards African Americans and especially, to stop segregation. During the 1920´s and 1930´s, the NAACP started a magazine called Crisis and also launched a campaign to generate awareness especially in white people about the equality of races. It was also a focus of the movement, during this decade, to start a lobbying effort to revert several laws passed especially by the southern states to forbid voting rights and also segregate the white and black races and they began to seek to increase the membership base of the movement. Finally, during this time, the NAACP managed to publicize and grow awareness in people about the evils of the Jim Crow laws that allowed discrimination, negated housing rights and segregated people and permitted public lynching of black people.  Because of what was explained before, the correct choice would be choice C

Answer 2

Bringing legal challenges to racial discrimination. The NAACP during the 1920s and 1930s led the struggle for the civil rights of blacks in the fight against injustice, such as the denial of voting rights, racial violence, discrimination in employment and facilities segregated public.