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NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909.
//National Association for the Advancement of Colored People//

====This is a really important event because this organization gives minority people a voice in there government and makes sure that some laws are fair. The NAACP seeks to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through the democratic processes. The NAACP has worked actively toward winning civil rights for minorities since its formation in New York City in 1909. ====

There are five NAACP committees that deal with health, international affairs, legal matters, awarding the annual Spingarn Medal, and awarding the Walter White Award. Also, four departments that handle economic development, voter education, regulation, and the Washington Bureau; and two programs that work with prison affairs and youth. It also devotes much of its funds and energies to an extensive program of assisting certain kinds of litigation on behalf of its declared purposes.

The NAACP's principal objective is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice. Little Rock 5 Also to secure the elimination of all racial barriers which deprive African American citizens of the privileges and burdens of equal citizenship rights in the United States. The NAACP started as the National Negro Committee (NNC). Then in became the NAACP is the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States, with memberships of more than 500,000 people distributed among more than 2,000 local and chapters.

The founders of the NAACP are Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrel,William English Walling and Dr. Henry Moscowitz, and 60 people, seven of whom were African American. The effort of the NAACP would not be possible without their leadership.The first president of the NAACP at this was Moorfield Storey.


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Before the NAACP there was the Niagara Movement that began in 1905. This then lead to the begining of NAACP. The stated goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, which promised an end to slavery, the equal protection of the law, and universal adult male suffrage, respectively.Civil Rights Act

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A series of early court battles, including a victory against a discriminatory Oklahoma law that regulated voting by means of a grandfather clause (Guinn v. United States, 1910), helped establish the NAACP's importance as a legal advocate. Also in Brow vs. the Board of Education it gave the NAACP an advocate for legal rights for minority. Among its greatest lobbying efforts have been the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (which included the Fair Housing Title), and the Civil Rights Act of 1975.

In the short and long term the NAACP allowed people of color to have equal rights. It also changed how people get treated and what is and is not fair. They helped prove that seperate  but equal is not always fair and this changed the course of history.