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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Civil Rights at Mid-Century, NAACP Annual Report, Forty-second Year, 1950

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09640.129 Author/Creator: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Place Written: New York, New York Type: Pamphlet Date: June 1951 Pagination: 18 p. : Height: 21.5 cm, Width: 14 cm Order a Copy

One pamphlet entitled, "Civil Rights at Mid-Century, NAACP Annual Report, Forty-second Year, 1950," dated 1951. Highlights the 1950 Supreme Court ruling on "separate but equal," which made impacts on cases on segregation in education, discrimination in an insurance company, youth group participation, published literature, and posters.

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