Welcome to the period 1875-1950. It was a time when America faced important social justice issues related to equal opportunity for its people. Most of these issues evolved around women's rights, segregation, and racial inequality. Women's rights dealt with women's suffrage and their right to vote, segregation dealt with Jim Crow laws, and racial inequality dealt with educational and political policies. Each of these themes closely symbolizes a social justice issue due to the inability for some groups of people to achieve their common human rights. In the United States, women have historically been treated differently and unequally than men. Women were discriminated against in education, employment and the right to vote. In 1877, more specifically, “at the beginning of the twentieth century, pervasive and overt racial discrimination excluded blacks from most jobs, denied them equal education, and politically disenfranchised them” (Katz, 2005). As a result, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded to achieve educational equality and opportunity for higher education among African Americans (U.S. Courts, 2014). This foundation was founded in 1909. The NAACP has helped fight on behalf of several court cases. To name a few, the NAACP aided the 1936 Murray v. Madison court decision, the 1938 Missouri ex-rel Gaines v. Canada, and the 1950 Sweat v. Painter case. In each of these cases discrimination occurred in comparisons of higher education. Students were denied admission to colleges based solely on their race. Throughout this time, the NAACP “attempted to persuade Congress… to enact laws protecting African Americans from lynching and other racist actions” (U.S. Courts, 2014). For each of these cases, the NAACP succeeded in desegregating educational systems for the enrollment of Africans