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| | Papers of the NAACP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The association wrestled with momentous issues during this periodthe implementation of desegregation in the South, violent backlash against voting rights work, the emergence of a plethora of new civil rights groups, de facto segregation and urban crises in the North, and the passage of federal civil rights legislation. |
 | | Among the NAACP leaders whose work is represented in the files are Roy Wilkins, Daisy Bates, Daisy Lampkin, Eleanor Roosevelt, A. Philip Randolph, Benjamin E. Mays, Kivie Kaplan, Arthur Spingarn, Stephen Gill Spottswood, and many others. |
 | | The Kivie Kaplan files detail his prodigious fund-raising on behalf of the NAACP and show his efforts to strengthen the relationship between the African American and Jewish communities during the 1950s and 1960s. |
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