Responses may vary but should include some or all of the following information: The NAACP sought candidates like Ada Lois Sipuel and George McLaurin, who attempted to attend the University of Oklahoma. They believed that this education was a right guaranteed them by the Constitution. By suing public institutions that had violated African Americans’ civil rights, the NAACP hoped to call attention to the hypocrisy of Jim Crow laws. Public institutions claimed to have “separate but equal” policies and facilities established by the US Supreme Court’s 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling. However, the NAACP court cases revealed that segregation could not even meet this standard.
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