The Niagara Movement and the Founding of the NAACP

African American Struggles and Civil Rights Advocacy

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Trace the establishment of the Niagara Movement and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to challenge discrimination through legal action.

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African American Struggles and Civil Rights Advocacy

9th Grade · Social Studies · US-NJ-SS

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Analyze the rise of Jim Crow segregation, disenfranchisement, racial violence, and the creation of seminal African American advocacy organizations.

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6.1.12.CivicsDP.6.bNew Jersey Social Studies Standards · 6th Grade

Relate the creation of African American advocacy organizations (i.e., the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) to United States Supreme Court decisions (i.e., Plessy v. Ferguson) and state and local governmental policies.