US History LA: NAACP Research Assignment: Equal Justice
Resources to support the NAACP research assignment.
Flag, announcing lynching, flown from the window of the NAACP headquarters on 69 Fifth Ave., New York City
Anti Lynching
Anti-Lynching Campaigns
- James Weldon JohnsonJohnson was a poet as well as an activist. Focus on his work with NAACP.
The NAACP & the fight against Racial Violence (3:31)
July 28, 1917 Silent Protest Parade, Fifth Avenue, New York City (1:45)
1930s
- Picket Line for Anti-Lynching Demonstration (1934)
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Photo and description of the campaign.
Fair Enforcement of Laws
The fight for equal justice in Criminal Courts
Moore v Dempsey (1922)
Life of Scipio Africanus Jones (8:36)
Scottsboro Boys (1932)
The Scottsboro Boys (7:40)
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