Dec 05, 2016 · 19.During the late 1940s and 1950s, _____ was the head lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. a. John Marshall d. W. E. B. Du Bois b. Thurgood Marshall e. Felix Frankfurter c. James Byrnes ANS: B DIF: Medium REF: The Struggle for Civil Rights
Terms in this set (17) During the late 1940s and 1950s, ________ was the head lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Thurgood Marshall. Which group was excluded from immigrating to the United States from the late nineteenth century until the 1940s? Chinese.
How did the Supreme Court justices justify their decision to strike down the use of white primaries in the southern states? The justices claimed that parties were "an agency of the State," and therefore any practice of discrimination against blacks was a violation of the Fifteenth Amendment.
W.E.B DuBois was an American civil rights activist. He was one of the co-founders of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in 1909.
In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.
How did the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP change its strategy in 1948? It began to attack the "separate but equal" rule directly. FEEDBACK: Until the late 1940s, the Legal Defense Fund concentrated on winning small victories within the existing framework.
Ida B Wells-Barnett was an African American campaigner for the Women's rights movement, she also was a journalist and speaker during the Civil Rights movement. She is known as a great leader for her passionate defensiveness of democracy.
An African American women/activist who stood up for her rights against white men on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Began by Rosa Parks, a boycott against Montgomery, Alabama's buses for the racial injustice that occurred.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) coordinated the boycott, and its president, Martin Luther King, Jr., became a prominent civil rights leader as international attention focused on Montgomery.
Montgomery's African Americans Mobilize Approximately 40,000 Black bus riders—the majority of the city's bus riders—boycotted the system the next day, December 5. That afternoon, Black leaders met to form the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA).Jan 12, 2022
Rosa Parks's arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, during which the black citizens of Montgomery refused to ride the city's buses in protest over the bus system's policy of racial segregation.
By an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the 1875 Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional. Neither the 13th or 14th amendments empowered Congress to pass laws that prohibited racial discrimination in the private sector.
(5-4) Ruled the preclearance formula in Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. Chief Justice Roberts delivered the majority opinion. The formula was based on outdated evidence and inconsistent with contemporary voting rights practice.
In which way did the 2013 Supreme Court ruling dilute the Voting Rights Act? Nine states with racial discrimination histories no longer need to submit plans to the government for approval.