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Taking stock of the success in Philadelphia, the NAACP began in the mid 1930s to plan legal challenges to segregated education throughout the United States. Under the leadership of a Howard University law professor, Charles Houston, the NAACP began filing suits to end segregation in education. Aware that a direct challenge to the legal foundation of segregation, the 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson, was likely to fail, the NAACP planned a series of challenges to the lack of advanced education or the poor quality of black education, rather than segregation itself. They hoped a court decision demanding that white school boards provide truly equal education to blacks would be so costly for white school districts that they would desegregate the schools voluntarily. An example of the NAACP approach was Murray v. Maryland (1936), wherein the NAACP helped a black graduate of Amherst College...
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