What was the relationship between the NAACP strategy regarding graduate education and grade-school ...

Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Define the older NAACP strategy as asking for separate but equal facilities.
2. Note that initially, the NAACP focused on legal cases in which young black undergraduates were attempting to gain admission to graduate schools, particularly law schools. This strategy was effective in the 1930s and 1940s in gaining blacks admission to law schools for the first time, a major blow to segregation.
3. Note that the NAACP viewed the graduate student cases as a stepping stone to compelling the court to rule against the Plessy doctrine of separate but equal facilities. They wanted to win under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
4. Conclude that the organization changed it strategy over time by taking up cases of kindergarten through high school black students trying to integrate public southern high schools like Little Rock High School in 1957.