On Discovery's Assignment Discovery, in the early 1900s the NAACP was formed, it challenged racist laws in court bringing many important civil rights cases to the Supreme Court also helping to fuel others in the fight like Rosa Parks
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On Discovery's Assignment Discovery, in the early 1900s the NAACP was formed, it challenged racist laws in court bringing many important civil rights cases to the Supreme Court also helping to fuel others in the fight like Rosa Parks
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