They also found a 84 year old shoemaker who was married to a white woman, he was dragged to the yard, hung to the tree and hacked to death with knives. By 1 AM most of the Easter end of the city was in flames. .
The disastrous riot got the attention of William Walling, a wealthy white writer who traveled with is wife to Springfield. He came to see what actually happed and why the riot was caused. William Walling wrote an article about this, The Independent. He also called a meeting with Ovington and Henry Moskowitz, another white social worker, they three met at Wallings apartment. They discussed about the bad treatment against the blacks and the racial discrimination and segregation of the blacks. These three workers had taken there first step to the organization today known as National Association for the Advancement of Colored People- the NAACP. .
Here are some important dates for the NAACP after it was formed:.
1918.
for many years" colored people were getting lynched for reason. People were getting hanged just because they were colored when this information reached NAACP the had protested on lynching after a couple of years of protesting. President Woodrow Wilson made conference against lynching 1930.
The NAACP made protested against the supreme and demanded a law on discrimination of colored people (African American (dark skinned Americans)). At 1930 they had won the protest and the Supreme Court was forced to make a law against the discrimination of colored people .
1941.
During World War II, the NAACP leads the effort to ensure that President Franklin Roosevelt orders a non-discrimination policy in war-related industries and federal employment.
1946.
The NAACP wins the Morgan vs. Virginia case, where the Supreme Court bans states from having laws that now colored people can sit next to a white person and they not have to sit in the back. The colored people have equal rights in means of transportation.
