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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.
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.
1980 Summer Olympics boycott: 1984 Summer Olympics boycott Friendship Games: 1986 Commonwealth Games: 32 Afro-Asian nations and 10 Caribbean nations United Kingdom: The Thatcher Government's attitude towards sporting links with South Africa: Sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era: 1988 Summer Olympics: North Korea
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 December 2024. American civil rights activists of the 1960s "Freedom ride" redirects here. For the Australian Freedom Ride, see Freedom Ride (Australia). For the book, see Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. Freedom Riders Part of the Civil Rights Movement Mugshots of Freedom ...
Nixon was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), becoming president of the Montgomery chapter in 1945 and, in 1947, president of the state organization. [2] In 1954, he was the first black to run for a seat on the county Democratic Executive Committee. [2]
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 ...
In some cities, the Councils published lists of names of NAACP supporters and signers of anti-segregation petitions in local newspapers in order to encourage economic retaliation. [30] For instance, in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1955, the Citizens' Council published in the local paper the names of 53 signers of a petition for school integration.
Montgomery bus boycott activist Harry Hay: 1912 2002 United States: early leader in American LGBT rights movement, founder Mattachine Society: Rosa Parks: 1913 2005 United States: NAACP official, activist, Montgomery bus boycott inspiration Daisy Bates: 1914 1999 United States: organizer of the Little Rock Nine school desegregation events Viola ...