NAACP And Social Equality

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The NAACP helped the nation have a political, educational, social, and economic equality. The NAACP helped everyone have educational equality by making sure everyone has an education. Every student can be ready for college or a career by ensuring access to teaching and discipline. The NAACP ultimate goal is to have everyone have an equal education.(NAACP) They also were involved in the pressy vs furguson which made the separate but equal claim.
NAACP helped with social equality. Social equality is being in a state of affairs in which all people within a specific group have the same status in certain respects, often including civil rights, freedom of speech, property rights, and equal access to social goods and services. The NAACP primarily

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