Of the many civil rights battles of the 1900s, none was more vital than overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine. This was the primary legal aim of a new civil rights organization founded in 1909 - the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - which embarked upon a strategy of first integrating educational institutions. After winning cases involving graduate education in the 1940s, the NAACP legal team - led by future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall - ch