Fight for the civil rights of African Americans
NAACP is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The whole premise of the organization is to fight for civil rights. Civil Rights pioneers such as Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King jr. we’re both closely involved with this organization.
Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, TX
The entry of the United States into World War II caused vast changes in virtually every aspect of American life. ... Building on the economic base left after the war, American society became more affluent in the postwar years than most Americans could have imagined in their wildest dreams before or during the war.
<span>Basically, many civil rights leaders felt the NAACP was an institution devoted not to expanding civil rights for all African Americans, but promoting the economic privileges of a small, black middle class. As I recall from my Twentieth Century Black Militancy class in university, for a long time the NAACP never pursued litigation to advance social justice for all blacks. It was perceived as an organization that was content to advance a certain amount of economic progress within the larger white power frame and without trying to change the existing white power structure, which was dominated by segregation and jim crow. </span>