NAACP
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT
OF COLORED PEOPLE



You can kill a man
But not a idea



NAACP

NAACP RELATED TOPICS

NAACP HISTORY

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NAACP



The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually
abbreviated as NAACP, is an African-American civil rights organization
in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is "to ensure the
political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all
persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination". Its
name, retained in accordance with tradition, uses the once common term
colored people.

The NAACP is run nationally by a 64-member board led by a chair. The
board elects one person as the President and one as chief executive
officer for the organization.

Departments within the NAACP govern areas of action. Local chapters are
supported by the Branch and Field Services department and the Youth and
College department. The Legal Department focuses on court cases of broad
application to minorities, such as systematic discrimination in employment,
government, or education. The Washington, D.C., bureau is responsible for
lobbying the U.S. government, and the Education Department works to improve
public education at the local, state and federal levels. The goal of the
Health Division is to advance health care for minorities through public
policy initiatives and education.



National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People



Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee



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NAACP
RELATED
TOPICS



Association for the Study of African American Life and History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_the_Study_of_African_American_Life_and_History

Black Rock Coalition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Rock_Coalition

NAACP Image Awards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP_Image_Awards

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP_Legal_Defense_and_Educational_Fund

NAACP Theatre Awards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP_Theatre_Awards

Niagara Movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Movement

Racial integration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_integration

Mary White Ovington
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_White_Ovington



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NAACP
100
YEARS
OF
HISTORY



Founded Feb. 12. 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and
most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization. Its
more than half-million members and supporters throughout the United
States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in
their communities, campaigning for equal opportunity and conducting
voter mobilization.


Founding group


The NAACP was formed partly in response to the continuing horrific
practice of lynching and the 1908 race riot in Springfield, the capital
of Illinois and resting place of President Abraham Lincoln. Appalled at
the violence that was committed against blacks, a group of white liberals
that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard, both the
descendants of abolitionists, William English Walling and Dr. Henry
Moscowitz issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice.

Some 60 people, seven of whom were African American (including W. E. B.
Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell), signed the call,
which was released on the centennial of Lincoln's birth.

Other early members included Joel and Arthur Spingarn, Josephine Ruffin,
Mary Talbert, Inez Milholland, Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Sophonisba
Breckinridge, John Haynes Holmes, Mary McLeod Bethune, George Henry White,
Charles Edward Russell, John Dewey, William Dean Howells, Lillian Wald,
Charles Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Ray Stannard Baker, Fanny Garrison
Villard, and Walter Sachs.

Echoing the focus of Du Bois' Niagara Movement began in 1905, the NAACP's
stated goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th,
14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, which promised
an end to slavery, the equal protection of the law, and universal adult male
suffrage, respectively.


NAACP: 100 Years of History
http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history



National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
http://www.naacp.org/




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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
LINKS



Civil Rights Movement Veterans
http://www.crmvet.org

Mary White Ovington
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Mary_White_Ovington

NAACP History: Mary White Ovington
http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-Mary-White-Ovington

NAACP - Its Real Beginning & Its Real Purpose
http://s-leretseh.hubpages.com/hub/NAACP-Its-Beginning

NAACP - History Learning Site
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/NAACP.htm

Youth College Mission
http://www.naacp.org/youth/college/mission/index.htm



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