The NAACP Uses Federal Law to Combat Jim Crow | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Learn how the NAACP launched a “revolution in criminal justice” when the Supreme Court ruled in its favor in 1923, asserting that states cannot trample on their citizens’ constitutional rights, in these excerpts from Forgotten Hero | American Experience. After Walter White and the NAACP helped overturn convictions of Black men in the 1919 massacre in Elaine, Arkansas, their Supreme Court victory prompted the NAACP to adopt a federal strategy to override states that were unwilling to protect all citizens’ rights.