Redfield testified on the general effect of segregated education. That record included evidence related to the tangible differences between the black and white law schools, the differences in physical plant, financial resources, numbers of professors, books in the library, and the like. They could continue to engage in spurious rationalizations, or they could enforce the Fourteenth Amendment in a way that would make the constitutional provision meaningful. To this end, a new s~ction (headed by Dr. John W. Davis, former president of West Virginia State College) has been added to the Legal Defense arm of the Association. The rejection letter stated that the school "did not accept Negro students." What was the NAACP? Articles with the HISTORY.com Editors byline have been written or edited by the HISTORY.com editors, including Amanda Onion, Missy Sullivan and Matt Mullen. Boards of education that ran elementary and secondary schools had an arsenal of potential defenses for differences between white and black schools. This is clear in the language of the appellate opinion. For a short time afterward, he taught in the English department at Howard University. Brown's importance in the history of American race relations is assured. Cases from across the country would be argued. At Harvard he compiled a brilliant record, graduating in the top five percent of his class and serving as the first Negro editor of the Harvard Law Review. In 1950 there were 300 Negro physicians, 150 African-American lawyers and judges, 150 black college professors, and 2,500 African-American schoolteachers residing in the District of Columbia. The average white schoolteacher earned two-thirds more than the average black one; and in contrast to its treatment of white children, the school board could not be troubled to provide a single bus for the transportation of black children. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), interracial American organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation; to oppose racism; and to ensure African Americans their constitutional rights. Moreover, just as black people were excluded from the University of Texas, the Texas State University of Negroes excluded the overwhelming majority, 85 percent of the population of the state, from which would be drawn most of the lawyers, judges and other officials, witnesses, and jurors in the state. Instead the court relied on a close examination of the facts and concluded that Murray had not been provided with an equal opportunity. Perhaps, but the physical facilities were substantially equal, and besides the new building for the white school could help explain the differences in per capita expenditures for white and black students. He concluded that efforts to equalize facilities between black and white schools should continue, but he also recognized (as Margold did) that victories in such cases could cause problems for the long-term goal of eliminating segregation. , which he argued before the Supreme Court in 1952 and 1953, finally overturning separate but equal and acknowledging that segregation greatly diminished students self-esteem. Indeed that liberalization has spread and intensified. Early in its fight for equality, the NAACP used the federal courts to challenge disenfranchisement and residential segregation. The NAACP found one in Baltimore resident Donald Murray. Thurgood Marshalls legacy lives on with the. The Legal Strategy That Brought Down "Separate but Equal" by Toppling School Segregation. In 1961, President Kennedy nominated Marshall to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in which he wrote 112 opinions, none of which were overturned on appeal. Watch acclaimed Black History documentaries on HISTORY Vault. Houston no doubt took pleasure in seeing, in Marshall's commitment and performance, graphic evidence of the success of his policies at Howard. With respect to these factors, the University of Texas was the superior school, and the question, the Court said, was not even close. They all had a common aim: the elimination of Plessy v. Ferguson's "separate but equal" doctrine. Redding was a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School and was admitted to practice in Delaware in 1929. Give me the doll you like to play with.2. Given the temper of the times, Margold recognized that it wouldn't do to attack school segregation under any and all circumstances. But professional schools were another matter. Howard became a clearinghouse and research center for those involved in the fight against segregation. The first part of that argument was based on the equal protection clause. As a result of class divisions within the African-American community, Gardner's group formed separately from the school's PTA, which was dominated by middle-class blacks. Morrow Research Professor of Law and adjunct professor of African Diaspora studies at Tulane University. Two things were left to the NAACP. What was the NAACP and what did it do? Marshall successfully challenged the board to only litigate cases that would address the heart of segregation. The Legal Strategy That Brought Down "Separate but Equal" by Toppling School Segregation, By Robert J. Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond, and Leland B. Ware, Paraprofessionals & school-related personnel, Standing united to protect immigrant rights, DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), Safe and welcoming public schools for all, AFT resources for organizing and back to school programs. Nonetheless, the trial court found that the Jim Crow law school provided a legal education that was equal to that provided by the University of Texas. Give me the doll that is a nice color. It was formed in New York City by white and Black activists, partially in response to the ongoing violence against Black Americans around the country. The NAACP won the case and it was a big victory for civil rights. Past winners have included George Washington Carver, Will Smith, Mary J. Blige, Alex Haley, Jesse Jackson and Oprah Winfrey. The second was to bring cases that would coax the Supreme Court into doing what it had assiduously avoided doing in Sweatt: overturning Plessy. First among these was the United States government. U.S. House of Representatives. 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Reflecting what had become the new thinking on race in the social sciences after the Second World War, Redfield further testified that scholars had recently become "compelled" to the conclusion that there were no "inherent differences in intellectual ability or capacity to learn between Negroes and whites," and that should any such differences be "later shown to exist, they will not prove to be significant for any educational policy or practice." The new school had only one alumnus. With more than 500,000 members, the NAACP works locally and nationally to "ensure political, educational, social, and economic equality for all, and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. What strategy did the NAACP use to end racial segregation? His strategy was part direct, part circumspect. A third of the city's Afro-American population was employed by the federal government. Houston was a man of extraordinary brilliance. The importance of Brown lay in its setting the nation's law on the path of rejecting the kind of racial exclusion that had made African Americans a people apart since before the nation's founding. The key to the cases lay in the innovative use of expert testimony to establish the psychological harm that segregation inflicted on African-American schoolchildren. The NAACP also benefited from supporting amicus briefs filed by the American Federation of Teachers, the Committee of Law Teachers Against Segregation in Legal Education, the American Veterans Committee, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the Japanese American Citizens League, and the American Civil Liberties Union. But the statute provided only $10,000 for scholarships: a paltry $200 each for up to 50 black students seeking a professional education out of state. In 1931, the NAACP's first staff attorney, Nathan Margold, outlined a legal strategy to challenge school segregation. One of the organization's key victories was the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of. Who Appointed Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court? In all of these tangible factors, the Court found the University of Texas superior. In effect, the Supreme Court in Sweatt was going well beyond Murray by saying that segregation in law school is inherently unequal. Because of these changes, the case was remanded to the trial court to determine if the new school was equal to the one for whites. In that event, two Black men being held in a Springfield jail for alleged crimes against white people were surreptitiously transferred to a jail in another city, spurring a white mob to burn down 40 homes in Springfields Black residential district, ransack local businesses and murder two Blacks. Maryland was willing to provide a state-supported legal education for Murray, but not in Maryland and not at the state university. The use of such experts as psychologists and social scientists accomplished a number of important goals. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks . Learn more about the Institutes vision and their fight to continue Thurgood Marshalls honorable mission for racial justice. Those wartime experiences left an indelible impression on the young Houston, creating, as he indicated, a determination to strike back at racial oppression: "The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. No matter how much money the state might spend at the black law school, how many faculty members the state might add, how large the student body might grow, or how large the library holdings might become, the qualitative differences in the intangibles associated with the two schools meant that to deny Heman Sweatt admission to the University of Texas was unconstitutional. Until a new facility could be built in Houston, the new school would be housed in downtown Austin, across the street from the state capitol. It would do so in large part because the NAACP early on recognized that the courts, despite their racial conservatism, were a potentially potent weapon in the battle for racial change. However Brown supporters and black leaders such as T.R.M. In 2009, the year he became Americas first Black president, Barack Obama spoke at a celebration of the NAACPs 100th anniversary. When Oliver Brown became the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka and the state of Kansas had a schizophrenic attitude about its Negro population. Few in the modern behavioral or biological sciences support the kind of scientific racism that was heartily championed at the best universities a century ago. On these facts, the court found that there was inadequate funding and no guarantee that Murray would have been successful had he applied for a scholarship. 2023, A&E Television Networks, LLC. The student-to-faculty ratio was three times higher at Howard than at Claymont. Asked by Justice Felix Frankfurter during the argument what he meant by equal, Mr. Marshall replied, Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time, and in the same place. Per pupil expenditures of public funds came to $43 per capita for black children and $179 per capita for white children. Our History. One of his great-grandfathers had been taken as a slave from the Congo to Maryland where he was eventually freed. The first case originated in Clarendon County, S.C. That county maintained a system of grossly unequal segregated schools. The Racial History Of The Grandfather Clause. NPR. In many ways it fit Winston Churchill's observation during the Second World War immediately after the allied victory in North Africa. Just before the six months were up, the state presented the trial court with evidence that it had established the Jim Crow law school. One of the organizations key victories was the U.S. Supreme Courts 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed segregation in public schools. The trial court record also contained important evidence showing the qualitative, intangible differences between the two schools. Black people were only 7.5 percent of the state's population, and though they were, in general, relegated to the lowest rung of the economic ladder, they were allowed in some of the same civic organizations as whites. Though the facilities for black elementary children were older, they were the rough equivalent of their white counterparts' facilities. After describing the importance of education to a democratic society, the Court framed the issue as whether "segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race deprives the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities." They have an expertise in the subject matter far beyond that which they have in other kinds of cases. But the law has found the system of structural inequality a more vexing problem. Du Bois, Ida B. The South Carolina and Kansas cases would also be joined by two separate cases that were filed in Delaware: Gebbart et al. The court found the state's method inadequate, not in theory but in fact. Marshall founded LDF in 1940 and served as its first Director-Counsel. Moreover, he continued, not only did segregated education produce negative effects, it also produced no positive effects. Thurgood Marshall was an influential leader of the civil rights movement whose tremendous legacylives on in the pursuit of racial justice. Maryland looked like it might provide fertile ground for such an effort. Members of the civil rights movement would find themselves confronting recalcitrant clerks at voter registration offices and gun-toting drivers enforcing segregation on municipal buses. The opinion allowed state officials six months to establish a black law school. But the Supreme Court had disposed of the case without addressing Marshall's argument. Before Brown, the Fourteenth Amendment notwithstanding, American law gave its sanction to a patent system of racial inequality. Despite the relative affluence of its black community, Washington was as segregated as any city in the Deep South. With this pronouncement, America stood at the dawn of a new era in race relations. The NAACP also argued that racial segregation did not meet the more exacting standard that had been suggested by two cases decided by the Supreme Court during the Second World War. So Marshall matriculated to Howard University Law School where he graduated first in his class and met his mentor, Charles Hamilton Huston, with whom he enjoyed a lifelong friendship. Marshall graduated from Lincoln University in 1930 and applied to University of Maryland Law School he was denied admission because the school was still segregated at that time. But it lacks the kind of official support that it had in generations past. Today, the NAACP is focused on such issues as inequality in jobs, education, health care and the criminal justice system, as well as protecting voting rights. Not more than three weeks after the decision in Sweatt, two black graduate students were admitted to the University of Texas, and Heman Sweatt became the first black person to enroll at the law school. Ultimatelyafter more than 100 years of effortthe NAACP and other groups were able to get a federal anti-lynching law passed and signed by President Joe Biden in 2022. The segregated law school that Texas reserved for African Americans was unequal. The case bearing the name by which the school desegregation cases are remembered began in 1948 when the Topeka, Kan., branch of the NAACP petitioned the local school board to desegregate the public schools. It was surrounded by factories and warehouses. In April 1951, a group of students at Moton High School, a black school in Prince Edward County, Va., organized a strike to protest their high school's shoddy conditions. While practicing law in Washington, D.C., Houston taught law part-time at Howard University Law School. After founding the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in 1940, Marshall became the key strategist in the effort to end racial segregation, in particular meticulously challenging Plessy v. Ferguson, the Court-sanctioned legal doctrine that called for "separate but equal" structures for white and Black people. Shortly after Sweatt, Marshall, 43 other attorneys, and 14 branch and local NAACP presidents convened to develop the next phase of the legal strategy. The judge was the same one who had held that the vastly inferior Prairie View school was equal. It left blacks and whites ignorant of one another, "prevent[ing] the student from the full, effective and economical understand[ing of] the nature and capacity of the group from which he is segregated." Some 10,000 people in New York City participated in a 1917 NAACP-organized silent march to protest lynchings and other violence against Black people. The NAACP also addressed the rise in hate crimes, evinced by a series of black church fires that swept the Southeast. The Court saw significant differences between the University of Texas and the Texas State University for Negroes in the number of faculty, the breadth and depth of course offerings, the size of the student body, the size and scope of the library, and the availability of cocurricular offerings. Administratively, the school was part of Prairie View University, a Texas state university for Negroes, some 40 miles away. Give me the doll that is the nice doll.3. Under the leadership of W.E.B. Compared with most other cities, Washington's black community was well educated and relatively well off. He points out that DuBois at the time believed that discrimina tion in education, rather than segregation, should be fought. Along the way, the civil rights movement would encounter every conceivable kind of resistance from unofficial and official quarters, but it would succeed in winning over new supporters. NAACP v Alabama was important because it would have prohibited the NAACP from operating in the state of Alabama. An additional important point should be made. What Brown did do was to catalyze a whole new phase of the civil rights movement. The court held that the state had failed in its Fourteenth Amendment obligation to provide an equal education. That might work. In its brief and oral argument, the NAACP gave ample evidence of this. In 1931, the NAACP's first staff attorney, Nathan Margold, outlined a legal strategy to challenge school segregation. The boycott was not supported by the local NAACP branch. In February of 1948, Gardner visited a NAACP meeting at a Methodist church were Charles Houston was delivering an address. Furthermore, because of the rapid growth in the city's black population during World War II, housing conditions in poor communities were deplorable, and black schools were inferior to white schools. Sixty percent of Claymont's faculty held master's degrees, compared with 40 percent at Howard. Like Donald Murray, Marshall was a Baltimore native. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed in 1909 to fight Jim Crow, 20th-century America's experience with petty and not so petty apartheid. What is clear is that the terrain would have been much bumpier and the playing field an awful lot less level without the efforts of those men and women who developed the strategy, argued the case, and changed history in Brown v. Board of Education. What was important was not so much the trial court decision as the record that was produced in the trial. Marshall was born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland, to William Marshall, railroad porter, who later worked on the staff of Gibson Island Club, a white-only country club and Norma Williams, a school teacher. These were sanctioned, indeed often mandated, by law. The NAACP could continue to urge the courts to find segregation inherently unconstitutional. Public facilities, public transportation, housing, and public schools were all rigidly segregated. It was, as lead counsel Thurgood Marshall stated, "an apology to Negroes for denying them their constitutional rights to attend the University of Texas," and, it should be added, not a particularly good one at that. His use of Redfield's testimony also showed that social science could be an important tool in the quest to vindicate the constitutional requirement of equal protection under the law. He was an ordinary citizen who was angered that his daughter had to travel each day past a modern, fully equipped white school to a black school housed in a deteriorated building. As a result, Marshall attended Howard's law school, just as Houston's reforms were beginning to take hold. The legacy of slavery, caste, and racism is a poverty rate for black families that is roughly three times that for whites. Marshall searched for another plaintiff who could help advance the court's thinking on the inherent inequality of separate education. Senior high schools were integrated, but they had separate teams in basketball, swimming, wrestling, golf, and tennis, as well as separate pep clubs, separate cheerleaders, and a separate assembly at which black students were urged to keep to their place. It is not as overwhelming a part of American culture as it was throughout most of the 20th century, but still, reports of its total demise are woefully premature. Marshall won a series of court decisions that gradually struck down that doctrine, ultimately leading to. Houston's skillful cross examination of the dean of the University of Maryland's law school highlighted this point. When Marshall sat with Houston on Murray's case, Marshall must have taken no small amount of pleasure in attacking the Maryland law school's policy of discrimination. Houston served in France with the all-black, rigidly segregated Ninety-second Division and experienced some of the most strident racism of the Jim Crow army of that era, including almost being lynched by a mob of white troops. Once again, note that the Court was examining two different law schools and that the justices were familiar with legal education; from their own experience they could see that the two schools were clearly not equal. They are law school graduates and they spend their professional lives working with law school graduates. v. Belton et al. The entirely part-time faculty had no offices at the black school. The appellate opinion went on to consider the question of intangible differences between a law school education at Howard and one at the University of Maryland. The NAACP played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. True, the NAACP had taken some chunks out of the doctrine with Murray and other cases. W.E.B. The question was simple: Was Maryland's system of providing state-sponsored scholarships to schools outside the state equal to providing an education at the state's law school? It was then that Houston decided to make changeschanges that would profoundly influence Howard University's law school and the course of the nation's civil rights law. He was commissioned as a first lieutenant after attending a training camp for Negro officers in Des Moines, Iowa. The Court found that it did, concluding that "to separate [black] children from others of similar age and qualifications generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in ways unlikely ever to be undone." After founding the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in 1940, Marshall became the key strategist in the effort to end racial segregation, in particular meticulously challenging Plessy v. Ferguson, the Court-sanctioned legal doctrine that called for separate but equal structures for white and Black people. The Negro university had only five part-time members and a tiny student body. Google memorializes the Silent Parade when 10,000 black people protested lynchings. All Rights Reserved. Claymont offered several extracurricular activities that were not available at Howard. Add an answer or comment Log in or sign up Questions asked by the same visitor Was a new building constructed for the white school and not the black one? But the Court had implicitly accepted the NAACP's first and second arguments in Sweatt, and though it had avoided the third, the due process claim, it had set a standard that was impossible for a segregated system of legal education to meet, for there would always be intangible differences in racially segregated schools. He too had applied to the University of Maryland's law school in 1930, and like Murray, Marshall was rejected. He found that plaintiff in Heman Sweatt. After two years of inaction, the branch contacted the organization's headquarters in New York and requested assistance in filing a lawsuit. It had to convince the courts that segregation was inherently unequal and that that inequality could be eliminated only by outlawing segregation itself. The NAACP argued that there was no "valid legislative end" that justified racial segregation, that segregation was arbitrary and irrational. The Clarks' findings were corroborated by separate studies performed by other psychologists. But at the end of the day, "separate but equal" remained entrenched. During the civil rights era in the 1950s and 1960s, the group won major legal victories, and today the NAACP has more than 2,200 branches and some half a million members worldwide. Washington Post. Even if one suspects that a significant portion of the responses to social surveys should be discounted as people telling the pollsters the "right" or "socially acceptable" answer, the fact that tolerance for interracial marriage or transracial adoption has become the "right" answer in the last half century itself reflects a profound cultural change. The organization received some criticism for its strategy of working through the judicial system and lawmakers to achieve its goals, rather than focusing on more direct methods of protest favored by other national civil rights groups. In 1951, Kenneth Clark, a social psychologist at the City College of New York, and his wife and fellow psychologist, Mamie Clark, developed a series of studies that examined the psychological effects of segregated and racially mixed schools on black children. Convinced that the law could be an important tool in the fight against racial repression, Houston began to give the Howard Law School a strong civil rights orientation. To be successful in eliminating segregated education throughout the United States, the NAACP realized it would have to convince the courts to take a much closer look at the equal side of the Plessy case. The Court had reiterated its frequent admonishment that it "will decide constitutional questions only when necessary to the disposition of the case, and that such decisions will be drawn as narrowly as possible." Since its inception, the NAACP has worked to achieve its goals through the judicial system, lobbying and peaceful protests. As one expert witness testified at trial, "a well-rounded, representative group of students" was necessary to enrich the learning atmosphere and to maximize the value of classroom discussion. Walter White, Executive Director of the NAACP, over the use of the Garland Fund grant. The NAACP will seek to safe guard the moral and tenure rights of Negro teachers in the assignment of personnel in desegregated systems. It got Donald Murray admitted to the University of Maryland. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. In an interview published in 1992 in the American Bar Association Journal, Marshall wrote that Charlie Houston insisted that we be social engineers rather than lawyers, a mantra that he upheld and personified. Take hold fires that swept the Southeast though the facilities for black elementary children were older they... 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