Citation: https://depts.washington.edu/moves/NAACP_map-basic.shtml
This graph illustrates that the NAACP shifted from a purely legal strategy to a more grassroots/mass mobilization approach. As seen in the graph, during the early legal battles, such as Nixon v. Herndon and Nixon v. Condon, membership numbers were relatively low. Since the NAACP wasn’t able to cause any meaningful change in disenfranchisement through legal victories alone, the organization had to shift to a grassroots/mass mobilization approach. The membership numbers started to increase towards the late stage of the battle in the early 1940’s, and in 1944, when Smith v. Allwright finally ended the white primary, numbers skyrocketed almost 14 times the original numbers from when the white primary was first implemented in the early 1920’s.