NAACP
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 by a group of black and white citizens committed to social justice. It is the nation’s largest and strongest civil rights organization. NAACP founders include Ida Wells-Barnett and W.E.B. DuBois.
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December 26th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
[...] B. Wells Barnett was a co-founder of the NAACP, an anti-lynch crusader and a Black female journalist. After earning degrees from Rust College and [...]
December 26th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
[...] Thurgood Marshall was a great lawyer and Civil Rights leader. As chief counsel for the NAACP, he won the historic Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case. This unanimous 1954 [...]
December 26th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
[...] 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In 1909, Dubois became one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He became the editor of the NAACP’s Crisis magazine, where he often wrote about [...]