"the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE BEST KNOWN MOVEMENT IN RECENT AMERICA HISTORY. UNFORTUNATELY, MUCH POPULAR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE MOVEMENT CONSISTS OF HALF-TRUTHS AND MYTHS... POPULAR UNDERSTAND OF THE MOVEMENT... EXAGGERATES ITS VISIONARY AND SPIRITUAL DIMENSION TO THE DETRIMENT OF ITS MORE PRAGMATIC SIDE... SO, IF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS NOT QUITE WHAT THE MAINSTREAM MAKE IT OUT TO BE, WHAT WAS IT? |
Thomas Vernon Reed, the author of The Art of Protest, shared the truth of the African American history in a few words. The stories that many learned throughout their education are mostly half-truths. NAACP is United States' oldest and biggest civil rights organization throughout the country' past and present. The organization flourished out of The Niagara Movement, a short-lived successful organization. The purpose of the Niagara Movement was to put an end to the Jim Crow Laws and to make an increase in the African American press. The organization was founded in 1905 and diminished in 1910. The association started to have a decreasing amount of memberships with a start of four-hundred and fifty members, which is the only reason of the movement's end. The Niagara Movement touched difficult topics of struggles from Jim Crow Laws and the cruel acts that are made due to slavery. This organization was basically the foundation of the NAACP because how much it inspired the NAACP to become what it is.
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