The drama of the mid-twentieth century formed on a foundation from early struggles. Two of which are, the NAACP’s campaign against lynching, and the NAACP’s legal campaign against segregated education, which was decided in the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown decision. The NAACP’s anti-lynching campaign of the 1930s combined widespread publicity about the causes and costs of lynching, a successful drive to defeat Supreme Court nominee John J. Parker for his white racism and anti-union views and then defeat senators who voted for confirmation, and a skillful effort to lobby Congress and the Roosevelt administration to pass a federal anti-lynching law. Southern senators stalling, but they could not prevent the formation of a national agreement against
