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"A lot of our work centers on moving this struggle from enforcing civil rights to both enforcing civil rights and realizing human rights," said NAACP President Benjamin T. Jealous. "A lot of the dispar- ities in this country go back to the fact that Black people still have a very hard time finding a good job, a very hard time getting their kids to be able to attend good schools, and if we can take care of those basics - good job, good school - then we could also deal with this completely unnatural, historical and very serious, dramatic rise in the incarceration rates of Black people in this country. Deal with these structural problems, then this country will move toward being postracial much more quickly. But right now, there's a big rock that stands between most working-class and poor Black people in this society and the rest of the country, and we have to break up that rock."
The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case, which finally overturned Plessy. * The desegregation of the armed forces in 1948 led by Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., who also led the fight with the NAACP for the passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1964 and 1968, as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. * Since the '60s each branch throughout the country has had its battles in and out of court against housing discrimination, job discrimination, education disparities, police misconduct, etc. * The case of Mumia AbuJamal has been brought for resolution many times within the plenary of the NAACP by a number of its members. * And today, I Am Troy/The Innocence Matters campaign is a raging battle across the land and internationally.See the full content of this document
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Naacp Celebrates 100
"A lot of our work centers on moving this struggle from enforcing civil rights to both enforcing civil rights and realizing human rights," said NAACP President Benjamin T. Je...
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