NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, Emil G. Hirsch and Henry Moskowitz. Over the years, leaders of the organization have included Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins. The NAACP is the largest and oldest civil rights group in America.

Politic crisis about a group of nine African Americans who attended a previously all-white school in 1957

civil rights organization

award for the highest achievement of an American of African descent

official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

1917 protest in New York City