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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [a] is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.
It was a project of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), founded in 1909. Recently the group had been working to publicize and try to end the continued lynchings, mostly of black men. In April they released a report, Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918.
The June 1 meeting brought about disputes between white members and Black members, who expressed a lack of trust in their white counterparts. This tension was partly due to the resurgence of the issue of courting Washington's support, this time in the context of including him in a steering committee to appeal to potential white donors.
Race and radicalism: the NAACP and the Communist Party and conflict. (ISBN 0012868949 / 0-01-286894-9). Goings, Kenneth W. (1990). NAACP Comes of age: the defeat of Judge John J. Parker (blacks in the Diaspora). (ISBN 9780253325853). Harris, Jacqueline L. History and achievement of the NAACP (the African American experience). (ISBN 9780531110355).
The largest NAACP Youth Council during the Civil Rights Movement was the Peekskill, NY NAACP Youth Council from 1955 to 1956. The Council had over 400 members and over 80% were white. The President was Offie Wortham. The largest NAACP College Chapter during the Movement was the Antioch College NAACP College Chapter in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Watch live as Joe Biden returns to the campaign trail with a speech to NAACP in Nevada on Tuesday (16 July) The president will address the NAACP national convention, a major gathering of Black ...
The NAACP issued a formal travel advisory for Florida on Saturday, warning that the state has become “openly hostile toward African Americans” under GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis’s leadership.
In 1911, Du Bois (who was appointed the NAACP's director of publications) recommended that the remaining membership of the Niagara Movement support the NAACP's activities. [61] William Monroe Trotter attended the 1909 conference, but did not join the NAACP; he instead led other small activist civil rights organizations and continued to publish ...