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citizens who came together in 1909 in a period of race
riots throughout this country and after the Springfield
Race riots which happened in the birthplace of ABraham
Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, formed the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People and
reaffirmed that we can work through the framework of
our Constitution and democratic government to right
ancient wrong and insure equal protection of the law to
ail citizens and so we worked through the courts
beginning in 1915 with the invalidation of the Grandfather
clause in voting and in 1917 with the invalidation of the
Supreme Court of racial segregation ordinances and housing
and then coining on up in the long struggle to secure
Federal anti-lynching legislation which although not
successful, the educational effect and the awaking of the
moral conscience in America resulted in the decrease of
lynching.
And in Maryland in 1935 when Judge Henderson
was an assistant attorney general, the Court of Appeals
of Maryland had the courage to set a precedent for equal
educational opportunities which the Supreme Court noted