Timeline of NAACP in Fight for Civil Rights!1908- Springfield Race Riot due to grizzly lynching leading to the formation of NAACP
1909 -NAACP created! 1910-National Negro Conference in NYC 1910- The Crisis, official monthly news publication of NAACP, created by W. E. B. Du Bois (editor) that featured events and issues impacting the African-American community as well as poems, short stories and novel excerpts during the Harlem Renaissance. 1915- Protests and “Fighting a Vicious Film: Protest Against The Birth of a Nation” pamphlet published against D. W. Griffith’s propaganda movie “Birth of Nations”; which negatively stereotyped African Americans and glorified the KKK ~showings were stopped in Chicago, Denver, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Kansas City. 1915- Guinn v. United States removing the grandfather clause that promoted racial disfranchisement 1916- NAACP Anti-Lynching Committee formed 1917- Silent Protest March in NY, NY against Jim Crow laws and lynching with about 8,000-10,000 African Americans in attendance (including 800 children) ~one of the largest protests in the US. 1918- “Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918” booklet published to gain support of lawmakers in ending the social, political and economic terror associated with lynching 1919-Hype of Harlem Renaissance in Harlem, NY that included many NAACP members 1920-NAACP appoints James Weldon Johnson as its first African American executive director 1930s- Support legally, financially and morally for colored communities during GD 1931-NAACP provides defense for the Scottsboro Boys, who were unfairly accused of raping two white women, becoming a nationwide known case. |
1940- Extended organization with separate legal arm called the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. 1941- NAACP fights for the end of discrimination in the military that leads to the first black pilot trainees that will then be stationed at Tuskegee Institute 1945- Walter White and W.E.B. Du Bois representing NAACP propose abolishment of colonial system at the United Nations Conference. 1947-W.E.B. Du Bois submits “An Appeal to the World” petition further pushing, on NAACP’s half, for abolishment of colonial system 1948-NAACP was formally addressed by President Truman and worked with him in creating ideas to improve civil rights issues. 1954- Brown v. Board of Education making segregation of schools unconstitutional 1955-Local Alabama secretary of NAACP Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott 1957-President of the Arkansas State Conference of NAACP Branch, Daisy Bates, leads the fight for the interrogation of Arkansas schools. 1963-March on Washington that was hosted by NAACP and other civil rights organizations 1989- Silent March protesting against U.S. Supreme Court’s retrogression of the gains against discrimination. 1997- Launched the Economic Reciprocity Program initiating the "Stop the Violence, Start the Love” campaign. |