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  2. NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. - Wikipedia

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    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886 (1982), [1] was a landmark decision [2] of the United States Supreme Court ruling 8–0 (Marshall did not participate in the decision) that although states have broad power to regulate economic activities, they cannot prohibit peaceful advocacy of a politically motivated boycott.

  3. NAACP - Wikipedia

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    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [a] is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.

  4. Savannah Protest Movement - Wikipedia

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    This boycott, led by Van Clarke, [70] divided the leadership of the protest movement. [81] From the beginning, Gadsden was opposed to the boycott, fearing that it would hurt the NAACP's broader goals for school integration. [81] In Savannah, despite the ruling in Brown v.

  5. Walter White (NAACP) - Wikipedia

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    The NAACP and Walter White wanted to increase their following in the black community. Weeks after White started in his new position at the NAACP, nine black teenagers looking for work were arrested after a fight with a group of white teens as the train both groups were riding on passed through Scottsboro, Alabama. [30]

  6. 2020 Facebook ad boycotts - Wikipedia

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    The 2020 Facebook ad boycotts were a group of boycotts that took place during the month of July 2020. Much of the boycotts were organized under the Stop Hate for Profit campaign, launched by the advocacy groups the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, Color of Change, Common Sense Media, Free Press and Sleeping Giants.

  7. NAACP v. Alabama - Wikipedia

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    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama, 357 U.S. 449 (1958), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court. Alabama sought to prevent the NAACP from conducting further business in the state. After the circuit court issued a restraining order, the state issued a subpoena for various records, including the NAACP's ...

  8. NAACP New Orleans Branch - Wikipedia

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    Race and radicalism: the NAACP and the Communist Party and conflict. (ISBN 0012868949 / 0-01-286894-9). Goings, Kenneth W. (1990). NAACP Comes of age: the defeat of Judge John J. Parker (blacks in the Diaspora). (ISBN 9780253325853). Harris, Jacqueline L. History and achievement of the NAACP (the African American experience). (ISBN 9780531110355).

  9. Timeline of the civil rights movement - Wikipedia

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    May 26 – Circuit Judge Walter B. Jones issues an injunction prohibiting the NAACP from operating in Alabama. May 28 – The Tallahassee, Florida, bus boycott begins. June 5 – The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) is founded at a mass meeting in Birmingham, Alabama.