Perhaps the NAACP’s most enduring legacy is its systematic legal dismantling of the “separate but equal” doctrine established in the 1896 Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson. The 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which overturned that doctrine, was a victory decades in the making. The case was argued by NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, who would go on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice.
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