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In cities such as Philadelphia, black educators argued that school systems could conserve scarce financial resources by consolidating the separate black and white school systems. African American citizens developed a variety of techniques to challenge segregation in education. In 1932 African Americans created the Educational Equality League of Philadelphia. The league had three main objectives: desegregation of schools, the hiring of black teachers, and the appointment of an African American to the Philadelphia school board. By 1940 they had substantially accomplished all three goals. Lawsuits supported by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) challenged segregation in the courts. Political activism by the league resulted in the election of white politicians sympathetic to desegregation. Boycotts of segregated education by parents mobilized community opinion and forced action from judges and governmental officials. In 1934 the school board in the Philadelphia suburb of Berwyn...
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