Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of NAACP-backed plaintiffs contended in 1970 that a "Detroit-only" remedy would not desegregate the city's schools, since almost 65 per cent of the city's school age population is black. No matter how mixed, the system would remain "racially identifiable as black," in violation of the Constitution. The black plaintiffs have argued that only a busing scheme encompassing the entire metropolitan area, about 80 per cent white, could establish a truly desegregated school system...
Most of the briefs were prepared by groups such as the American Association of Law Schools, the American Bar Association, the NAACP legal defense fund, the Civil Liberties Union and defense funds for several minority groups. Besides Harvard, the only other universities known to have offered opinions to the Court are Rutgers and Cornell...
...that moral and political catatonia of most liberals which caused state NAACP President Aaron Henry to maintain that Southern whites would never be free until blacks were...
Certainly, SCLC came quicker and brought more than any other major civil rights group. The fact that Angela Davis is a Communist did much to slacken the response of the NAACP and the Urban League. Both organizations receive government funds, and it wouldn't look good to the boys back at the Bureau of the Budget to see a sizeable contribution to Angela's defense fund in their annual audit. So, with their financial deficits of half-a-million dollars each that future government grants could do a lot to cure, the Urban League and the NAACP were forced...
Steiner worked closely with the NAACP during this time. Because the EEOC could not file suit on its own behalf, Steiner filed many "friend of the court" briefs for the black organization's Legal Defense division...