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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Founded in 1909, this long-running civil rights organization has spent more than a century pushing the United States toward equal protection, voting rights, and an end to racial discrimination. Its story reaches from early anti-lynching and legal battles to landmark fights against segregation and modern campaigns for justice.
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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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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is one of the oldest and best-known civil rights organizations in the United States. It was founded in 1909, in the wake of escalating racial violence, by an interracial group that included figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Ida B. Wells, Moorfield Storey, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.
From its early years, the organization combined public advocacy, investigative work, publishing, and courtroom strategy. Du Bois helped shape its voice through The Crisis, the NAACP's influential magazine, and the group became especially important in long legal campaigns against segregation, disenfranchisement, and racial terror.
Over time, the NAACP grew into a national network of branches and youth councils, becoming a central force in the broader struggle for civil rights. Its history is closely tied to campaigns for fair housing, equal education, voting access, and constitutional protections for Black Americans.