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Discuss the strategy and tactics of the NAACP leading up to the Brown decision. How did that case happen? How important was that case? What did it lead to? The legal program of NAACP of the 1920s and 1930s has brought a significant contribution to the outcome of the case of Brown. The year 1940 became the year of setting up the Legal Defense and Educational Fund by NAACP. Its aim was to attack the legal foundations of inequality on the basis of race in the system of education of the United States of America. Later the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund applied actions to fight against discrimination and segregation in various areas of peoples lives, such as education, housing, politics, employment, etc. Since the very foundation of the Legal Defense and Educational Fund, its attorneys gained numerous stunning victories, including famous cases of Smith v. Allwright, Shelley v. Kramer and many others. Constance Baker Motley was one of the lawyers of the fund and her whole life was a symbol of the struggle for protection of the rights of African American employees, both males and females, which had to face discrimination on the basis of their race or gender. He also dealt with disparate forces coalescence which later led to revolution. Constance Baker Motley was the guide on the road to Brown and in 1954 the Supreme Court claimed its decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The decision impacted the process of movement of desegregation of the society of the United States of America from the military into the realm of the civilians. The decision in the Brown case was extremely important as it undermined segregation which was sanctioned by the stated throughout the whole society of the country (Hine, Hine, Harrold, 2011).

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References Hine, D., Hine, W., Harrold, S. (2011). The African-American Odyssey. Vol. II. Prentice Hall.