NAACP And more

Though over sited by Martin Luther King in the 60’s, the NAACP played a dominated role during the Civil Right Movement. (Watson, Denton L. p 453) They were the silent crusaders that help “the right to justice, the vote, education, the abolition of Jim crow, equal treatment in the Armed Forces and enforcement of the 13th_, 14th_, and 15th_ amendments.” (Karenga 169) The NAACP Chapters can be found all over America, like Oklahoma. The Oklahoma chapter of the NAACP helped Clara Luper, who was the 1st_ women to ever orchestrate a series of sit ins, in her fight to end segregation. The legal movement was great in getting laws pass put not getting the implicated that is where the NAACP came in, like superman. NAACP helped with a case, which went all the way to the Supreme Court, to integrated interstate buses and trains. (http://www.ajc.com/) Reconstruction was a system to help transition the south after the civil war. It was to help ex- slaves find placement and help reconstruct what was lost, from the white southerners, during the war. It did work for the white southerners, they got money to build new houses and businesses, but for the Blacks, the ones who needed the most, no, it did not work for them. And the present for the NAACP looks very bright, just celebrating the 100Th_ Anniversary, a few days ago, it seem to still be helping in the fight for an equal America for all. Matter of fact, Rhonda William, the Youth Advisor of the NAACP Chapter in Oklahoma, implicated a reading program, for youth in Lawton, which is so powerful she doesn’t even have to be there to guide it. I think, as an America, you have the civil right to be taught correctly in a public school, not be left behind. There is also the Jena 6, The Jena Six are a group of six black teenagers chargedwith the beating of Justin Barker, a white student at Jena High Schoolin Jena, Louisiana, United States, on December 4, 2006. (Wikipedia) Before our recent speaker I always thought that civil rights movement was powerful everywhere but here, I use to think if I were to have live back then, I would want to have been in New York or working with SNCC. But, now I know a little bit more it makes me very proud that I live in the same state as Clara Luper, John Green, and Ada Lois sequel Fisher.