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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Born out of the fight against racial violence and discrimination, this historic civil rights organization has spent more than a century pushing the United States closer to equal justice. Its story reaches from early anti-lynching campaigns and landmark court battles to ongoing work for voting rights, education, and economic fairness.
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The Fight Against Lynching Anti-Lynching Work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the Year Nineteen Eighteen
by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Founded on February 12, 1909, the NAACP is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the United States. It was created as an interracial effort after the 1908 Springfield race riot, with early leaders and supporters including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Ida B. Wells, Moorfield Storey, Lillian Wald, Emil G. Hirsch, and Henry Moskowitz. The organization established a national office in New York in 1910 and set out to challenge racial discrimination through democratic and legal means.
Over the years, the NAACP became a major force in American public life. It fought segregation, opposed lynching, supported voting rights, and helped shape some of the most important legal challenges of the civil rights era. Its mission today is to achieve equity, political rights, and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights and accelerate the well-being, education, and economic security of Black people and other communities of color.
Because the NAACP is an organization rather than a single author, there is no single portrait image that fits as a profile photo.