In the beginning of the campaign against Buraku discrimination, the Levelers Association focused on denouncing individuals who practiced discrimination. Eventually they expanded their range of activities to denouncing society and systems such as the military, police, schools and administrations, that reproduced and nurtured discrimination. The "Denunciation Struggle Against Marriage Discrimination" that occurred in Takamatsu in 1933 was a Struggle against the decision of a court case in which a man was prosecuted for "marriage-kidnapping", as he married without disclosing his family's Buraku origins. This struggle developed into a nationwide campaign and was an epoch-making event in the history of the anti-Buraku-discrimination movement. The Levelers Movement aimed at achieving egalitarianism through the struggle against discrimination based on the social class. The Asia-Pacific war then began in 1941 and the Levelers Movement, along with other organizations that were also involved in social issues, was dragged into Japan's aggressive war against other Asian countries and suspended its own activities during this wartime period. In 1946, after the end of the war, the movement was revived under the name of "The National Committee for Buraku Liberation".

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