USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

1920S AMERICAN CULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The ____ was a civil rights organization made up of African American lawyers who were determined to overturn segregation and “separate but equal”. They pushed for the case of Guinn v. United States.
A
KKK
B
NAACP
C
National Origins Act 1924
D
Red Scare
E
Volstead Act
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991.

Detailed explanation-2: -The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 in response not only to widespread lynchings of blacks in the South but also a dramatic 1908 lynching in the Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln’s hometown of Springfield, Illinois in the North.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) born in Baltimore Maryland, was an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court’s first African-American justice.

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