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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(NAACP), organization composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and segregation. The association was formed as the direct result of the lynching (1908) of two blacks in Springfield, Ill. The incident produced a wide response by white Northerners to a call by Mary W. Ovington, a white woman, for a conference to discuss ways of achieving political and social equality for blacks. This conference led to the formation (1910) of the NAACP, headed by eight prominent Americans, seven white and one, William E. B. Du Bois , black. The selection of Du Bois was significant, for he was a black who had rejected the policy of gradualism advocated by Booker T. Washington and demanded immediate equality for blacks. From 1910 to 1934 Du Bois was the editor of the association's periodical The Crisis , which reported on race relations around the world. The new organization grew so rapidly that by 1915 it was able to organize a partially…
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Organization established to oppose racial inequality, segregation, and discrimination against blacks and other minority groups. Originating in New York City with the purpose of gaining political, economic, social, and civil equality for all Americans, the NAACP broadened its focus to the entire…
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( naacp ) was founded in 1909-1910 in New York City by a group of white and black intellectuals. United in their opposition to the gradualism preached by Booker T. Washington, the naacp leaders sought, first, to make whites aware of the…
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On February 12, 1909, men and women of various religions and races met in New York for a conference on the 100th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. They organized the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in response to the lynching and intimidation accompanying “separate-but-equal” …
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W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois,...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a biracial civil rights organization founded in 1909 by a group of white and black intellectuals. Many core members of the NAACP had previously belonged to the Niagara Movement, a black civil rights organization established in…
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From Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
Founded in 1905 by a group of black intellectuals led by W.E.B. Du Bois, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)—now the oldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization—has been at the forefront of the culture wars in its long struggle to destroy the sociopolitical…
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense Fund (LDF) was founded in 1940 under the leadership of the late Thur-good Marshall, who later became the first African American United States Supreme Court Justice. For more than half a century, LDF has mounted legal…
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Harriet Tubman, one of the founders of the...
Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States, with more than 500,000 members in 2,200 branches located in every state, the District of Columbia, Japan, and Germany. The NAACP uses…
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(NAACP), organization composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and segregation. The association was formed as the direct result of the lynching (1908) of two blacks in Springfield, Ill. The incident produced a wide response by…
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Also known as: NAACP The NAACP—the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People—is the most important organization in African-American politics, and historically it has been the most visible organization in the 20th-century struggle for freedom and equality. …
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
US civil-rights organization dedicated to ending inequality and segregation for blacks through nonviolent protest. Founded in 1909, its first aim was to eradicate lynching. Since then the NAACP has campaigned to end segregation and discrimination in education, public accommodations, voting, and…
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