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...Review—trained future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Attorney Oliver Hill, according to Ogletree. Both men played pivotal roles in developing the case against "separate but equal" school facilities. Specifically, Marshall served as chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which took the Brown case to the Supreme Court...
...outcome of the case was in doubt until the end. Klarman said the NAACP prepared two press releases because it was not clear who would...
...Cambridge NAACP, the Cambridge branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also presented Mayor Michael A. Sullivan with its Martin Luther King, Jr., Education Award...
...award recognized the mayor’s work as the chair of the school committee, according to NAACP chapter vice president Josephine Bartie...
...face criminal charges for the non-violent protest activities of its members. Greenpeace has suggested that the case might even be a first in this respect. Some legal experts disagree, however, citing a particularly proud chapter in our nation’s history—harassment of the NAACP by southern states during the 1950s...