1. Historically, how has the NAACP been instrumental in the African American experience? Please be specific.
The NAACP has been one of the most impactful things in the African American experience. As long as it’s for the cause of the movement, then the NAACP will back you up. For example Martin Luther King or Rosa parks were both participants of the African American experience relating to the NAACP. The organization was there to assist and inform about the movement.
2. How has the Oklahoma NAACP contributed to the history of civil rights movement?
The NAACP of Oklahoma has contributed to the civil rights movement by having people like Clara Luper make a difference. She formed a sit in and her determination helped to change Oklahoma’s history. The people of Oklahoma stood up and worked together to have what they believed in. By creating a chapter here in Oklahoma, it became apparent that individual state change was on its way.
3. What are some ways in which the legal movement contributed to the Civil Rights movement? Please be specific.
The legal movement contributed to the Civil Rights movements because multiple cases on education and freedom were becoming an issue. Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher was the first black African American to attend Oklahoma University in 1949. A Court case was developed, Sipuel vs. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma, and Thurgood Marshall was Ms. Sipuel’s lawyer. Therefore a black student was admitted to the school and the first black lawyer was able to defend her.
4. What were some similarities between the NAACP's relevance to the African American experience and the legal movement?
Most white lawyers didn’t want to defend African American cases or people, either because they were ignorant or because they didn’t see the point. That benefitted both the legal movement and the civil rights movement because it was blacks defending blacks. As the movements began, it inspired more people to want to take part.
5. Explain Reconstruction and was it successful?
Reconstruction was a system to help shift the south after the civil war. It was set up to help people get back what they had lost and to find placement for slaves, it was all about money, business, and the forethought of the reconstruction. It didn’t work for the slaves, because the whites still weren’t willing to help but for the white southerners…it did.
6. What are some current ways in which the NAACP has been active in maintaining societal civil rights?
The NAACP is always trying to give back to the community and they are still maintaining a societal status in civil rights by giving away scholarships, helping kids in school and always trying to progress in their community service. Like in my hometown chapter of the NAACP, they visit schools and have little sibling programs. Also in the Oklahoma chapter, our visitor stated that, “they are trying to get the sunset signs taken down.”
7. Personal reflection: After listening to both of our recent visitors, what are some of your thoughts in reference to African and African American studies and the African American experience?
After listening to both guest speakers, it just puts back into perspective the struggle that African Americans had to endure. My life right now would never have been this good, if it wasn’t for them. But I’ve realized that no matter what, it’s all about giving back to the community. I hope to fulfill my dreams in life and then help somebody else. And the goals that I have written on my mirror have made it where I can think about them every single day.
The NAACP has been one of the most impactful things in the African American experience. As long as it’s for the cause of the movement, then the NAACP will back you up. For example Martin Luther King or Rosa parks were both participants of the African American experience relating to the NAACP. The organization was there to assist and inform about the movement.
2. How has the Oklahoma NAACP contributed to the history of civil rights movement?
The NAACP of Oklahoma has contributed to the civil rights movement by having people like Clara Luper make a difference. She formed a sit in and her determination helped to change Oklahoma’s history. The people of Oklahoma stood up and worked together to have what they believed in. By creating a chapter here in Oklahoma, it became apparent that individual state change was on its way.
3. What are some ways in which the legal movement contributed to the Civil Rights movement? Please be specific.
The legal movement contributed to the Civil Rights movements because multiple cases on education and freedom were becoming an issue. Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher was the first black African American to attend Oklahoma University in 1949. A Court case was developed, Sipuel vs. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma, and Thurgood Marshall was Ms. Sipuel’s lawyer. Therefore a black student was admitted to the school and the first black lawyer was able to defend her.
4. What were some similarities between the NAACP's relevance to the African American experience and the legal movement?
Most white lawyers didn’t want to defend African American cases or people, either because they were ignorant or because they didn’t see the point. That benefitted both the legal movement and the civil rights movement because it was blacks defending blacks. As the movements began, it inspired more people to want to take part.
5. Explain Reconstruction and was it successful?
Reconstruction was a system to help shift the south after the civil war. It was set up to help people get back what they had lost and to find placement for slaves, it was all about money, business, and the forethought of the reconstruction. It didn’t work for the slaves, because the whites still weren’t willing to help but for the white southerners…it did.
6. What are some current ways in which the NAACP has been active in maintaining societal civil rights?
The NAACP is always trying to give back to the community and they are still maintaining a societal status in civil rights by giving away scholarships, helping kids in school and always trying to progress in their community service. Like in my hometown chapter of the NAACP, they visit schools and have little sibling programs. Also in the Oklahoma chapter, our visitor stated that, “they are trying to get the sunset signs taken down.”
7. Personal reflection: After listening to both of our recent visitors, what are some of your thoughts in reference to African and African American studies and the African American experience?
After listening to both guest speakers, it just puts back into perspective the struggle that African Americans had to endure. My life right now would never have been this good, if it wasn’t for them. But I’ve realized that no matter what, it’s all about giving back to the community. I hope to fulfill my dreams in life and then help somebody else. And the goals that I have written on my mirror have made it where I can think about them every single day.
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