~ The History of NAACP ~
NAACP was originally called the National Negro Committee and was founded in New York by white and black intellectuals: W.E.B Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, Lillian Wald, William English Walling, Henry Moskowitz and Archilbald Grimke. The organization sought to bring awareness of the racial inequality by segregation and discrimination in America and to take action against it. They came to be due to the continuous rate of lynching in the nation and with the grizzly lynching in Springfield, Illinois that caused a race riot it became the lat straw for many. Thus in the aftermath of the riot about 60 people got together and called for racial equality creating NAACP. The organization began first working through the media with publishing in the newspaper as well as giving lectures around the states. Then in 1910, NAACP officially set up an office in NYC and created a board of directors and began working towards court cases involving segregation and inequality; winning cases like Guinn v. US (1915) ending the Grandfather clause and Brown v. Board of Education (1954) ending school segregation . By 1913 there were branch offices created reaching other cities such as "Boston, Massachusetts; Baltimore, Maryland; Kansas City, Missouri; Washington, D.C.; Detroit, Michigan; and St. Louis, Missouri" ("100 Years of History"). It also began supporting the anti-lynching protests-giving way to a 30 year campaign against it and a flag above its office reading "A Man was Lynched Yesterday"-and worked "to prove that facilities separated according to race were inherently unequal" ("NAACP Introduction").
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It continues to this day working hard to make sure colored communities gain all the rights given by America to all its citizen as well as the same treatment (anti-discrimination), and to solve the issues of colored communities like the high rate of HIV positives in colored communities. It is amazing to see NAACP after 109 years of working hard towards pushing forward the civil rights movement and helping to accomplish its goals.
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