The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 

 

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was instituted in the early 1900s to aid in the fight to end racial inequality. For the first twenty years of its establishment, the organization had tried to convince Congress to create laws that would protect African Americans from racist violence, like the ever prevalent lynchings for example. The Legal Defense and Education Fund had turned its attention to the courts to try to end legal racial discrimination in the 1930s. The leader of the legal fund was Charles Hamilton Houston, and along with Thurgood Marshall, he had developed a strategy in which they would try to attack the Jim Crow laws, in the educational system, and attempt to end the racial injustice present in that system.