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By Hunter Campbell, and AJ Cannelli
NAACP
WHAT WAS THE NAACP
Founded in 1909, the national Association for
the advancement of colored people, today has
approximately 425,000 members
 The NAACP was the first Civil Rights
organization established in the United states.
 Their goal was full equality and cival rights for
African American, and was a major player in the
struggle for full social, economical, and political
equality.
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WHAT WAS THE NAACP CONT…
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It called for federal anti-lynching laws and
coordinated a series of challenges to statesponsor segregation in public schools, an effort
that led to the land mark 1954 Supreme Court
decision in Brown v Board of education, which
declared the doctrine of “separate but equal”
to be unconstitutional.
WHO WAS INVOLVED
Founded in 1909-1910 in New York City by a
group of white and black intellectuals.
 Founders: Ida B. Wells, W.E.B DuBois, Henry
Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald
Garrison Villard, William English Walling.
 Thousands of black and white members who
wanted a change.
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WHEN DID THE NAACP TAKE PLACE
The NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909
 It was first Civil Rights movement in America.
 Most of its important events occured from
1909-1965.
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WHY DID THE MOVEMENT START
NAACP's 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.
 Wanted to stop Jim crow laws in the south.
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WHAT TACTICS DID THE NAACP USE
policy reviews
 political lobbying
 political protests
 political mobilization
 legal challenges/ court cases
 Raise awareness
 Protest marches
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EVENTS
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1917, July 28, the NAACP organized the largest civil rights protest in United
States’ history.
1919: The pamphlet, Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States is
published.
1930s: During this decade, the organization began providing moral,
economic and legal support for African-Americans suffering criminal
injustice.
1948: President Harry Truman becomes the first president to formally
address the NAACP. Truman worked with the NAACP to develop a
commission to study and offer ideas to improve civil rights issues in the
United States.
1954: The landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education
of Topeka, overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling. The ruling declared that
racial segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th
Amendment. The ruling made it unconstitutional to separate students of
different races in public school.
EVENTS
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1955: Rosa Parks, The Montgomery Bus Boycott
1963 March on Washington
Marched with the SCLC
1964-1965: The NAACP played a pivotal role in the passage of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Through cases fought and won in the U.S. Supreme Court as
well as grassroots initiatives such as the Freedom Summer, the
NAACP consistently appealed to various levels of government to
change American society.
SIGNIFICANCE
In the end, the major victories of the NAACP
were:
- Advancing voting rights (ending the
grandfather clause, the white primacy, and
discriminatory residential covenants).
- Eliminating Jim Crow laws in the south.
- End segregation in places of public
accommodation and education.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.naacp.org/
 http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/3organized/naacp.html
 http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1595.html
 The Sixties in America
 The Civil Rights Movement 1964
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