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Rich Man's Gift Helped NAACP Go On Offense
In the late 1920s Charles Garland, heir to a large fortune, endowed the NAACP with a $100,000 fund later worth about $30,000 after the 1929 crash. Walter White recalls the gift shifted the NAACP from defense to a broad legal push, leading to test cases culminating in the 1954 ruling that public school segregation is unconstitutional. The fund enabled hiring full time lawyers like Charles H. Houston and a strategic push against Jim Crow in transportation and education.
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