On this day, the NAACP filed its first lawsuit in a landmark campaign to equalize the salaries of Black and white teachers in the segregated South. The case, Alston v. School Board of Norfolk, Virginia, was led by attorney Thurgood Marshall, marking a strategic legal effort to challenge racial discrimination in education.
This lawsuit set a precedent and became part of a broader NAACP legal strategy that would eventually lead to Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the dismantling of Jim Crow laws in public schools.
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