Why: Because the NAACP was effective in using the court system to promote the gradual desegregation of Jim Crow Alabama How: In addition to issuing an outright ban, Alabama subpoenaed NAACP membership lists. read more
How: In addition to issuing an outright ban, Alabama subpoenaed NAACP membership lists. The idea was that the Alabama state government could pass around the membership lists to white employers and landlords, which would lead to Alabama NAACP members getting fired and evicted. read more
In 1956, the state of Alabama did, in fact, outlaw the NAACP. Earlier that year, the group had forced the University of Alabama to temporarily admit Autherine Lucy, the school's first black student, and had won the Browder v. read more
Alabama (357 U.S. 449) was the landmark case in which the U.S. Supreme Court formally recognized the freedom of association as a right protected by the First Amendment. read more